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Savannah lost her two front bottom teeth this past Thursday. The very same day Hope received her first bicycle complete with training wheels. Logan remembered that you can never forget how to ride a bike.

Friday all three swam in a lake for the first time, with fish, and a dog. I never thought the girls would go for that. Then they watched fireworks and got eaten alive by mosquitos despite all my attempts at preventing that by spraying them with horrible chemicals. It's hard to choose between DEET and West Nile Virus.

Saturday Hope celebrated turning four at The Magic Kingdom. Savannah is terrified of just about everything. Hope is too but more willing to just close her eyes and go through with it anyway. However, she would not birthday parade with Piglet and Tigger. She did kiss them and hug them though. We rode the flying Dumbo ride twice at Hope's request. She even went through Pirates of the Caribbean with her dad and brother. It was very hot. Disney World is for winter months. She is running around now in her gift which was a Tinkerbell costume. I have a feeling she will live in it for the next several months.

Logan finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonixearly last week, read Holes the very next day, and then took a couple days off. Last night around eightish I handed him Charlotte's Web, he went to bed around ten. He has a little over one chapter left. I can't keep the boy in books. While on some riverboat ride at Disney we passed Tom Sawyer's island. We saw the half finished white-washed fence with "Tom loves Becky" and "Huck" painted on it. No one in our house has read about Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn but me. I may have to take a trip to Barnes and Noble this weekend. I have a feeling Logan will really enjoy those stories.

Last night as I fired up my grill I had a friendly conversation with the girl who lives downstairs. We seem to have a lot in common aside from the fact that I already have a whole family to take care of and she is just now engaged and won't be able to have children. We are around the same age. She is still going to school. Her accent is way more country than mine, but if I stand there for more than five minutes I walk away sounding just like her. She seems very nice. She mentioned wishing she had more time to chit chat last week as she doesn't have many friends down here. I know the feeling.

It is hard to meet people when you move to a new place if you aren't hanging out in public places socializing. The only really good friend I have made so far since leaving Ohio was once my neighbor. While I was hopping around the midwest she moved back to Wisconsin. So I have seen her once since we went our separate ways. She came to stay with me for a few days in Iowa. She now lives in Colorado. Too far away to come go shopping with me. Anyway, making new friends as an adult with a husband and three home schooled children is as hard as a single mother trying to get back into dating, I suspect. You come with a whole package. Plus, I don't think I have the time or energy people who become friends with me seem to always demand.

Posted by gwendolyn on July 08, 2003 at 10:58 AM