Lemon Lightning Bolts

Douglas is playing soccer again this year. He's on a team called the Lemon Lightning Bolts. This past Saturday the coach wasn't able to attend, so Sam substituted. Douglas chose the number 6 for his jersey "because I am six years old." He loves being out there on the field. We think he enjoys the social aspect more than the actual competition.

Kate (Sam's sister) came to see Douglas play. She got this video of Penny cheering for Douglas.

Another example of our picky eater. Douglas will eat the outer edges of the cucumber slices, but he will not allow those cucumber seeds to enter his mouth.

We can now attend church in person twice each month, with up to 150 people in attendance each meeting. There are still plenty of precautions in place, but life is slowly returning to normal. It's wonderful to be back worshiping in person with our friends and neighbors. Grandma Coombs made the masks for the children.

"Look, I'm wearing a mask." The mask came off a few seconds later, but at least I got the photo.

This is one of Diana's cute laughs.

Diana and Penny playing in the wagon.

Last week we started what will hopefully become a tradition of one-on-one dates with Mom or Dad. I took Penny to the Station Park fountain to play and watch the fountain and listen to the music that accompanies the fountain. We had a great time. We danced, chased each other around, and sat by the fire.

Tonight I took Douglas on his date. He, too, wanted to go to the Station Park fountain. We spent the first 20 minutes of our date in the van when Douglas got one of his frequent nose bleeds. It didn't bother him. We laughed and joked while he stuffed tissues up his nose and we waited for his red waterfall to stop. He was thrilled when I pulled Uno cards out of my pocket. For the rest of our date (over an hour!) we played round after round of Uno while we watched people and the fountain. Every hour there is a fun song that accompanies the fountain, played over the loudspeakers. I told Douglas we could listen to the 8:00pm song and then we would need to leave. It happened to be the YMCA song, which we both love. We danced, ran around, and made the YMCA letters with our arms. Twas a great evening.