Got It

 It's here.  Finally.  We made it.  Summer.

Kindergarten and the grand start of elementary school can now be checked off the list as Accomplished for Rush.  He came home a little sad about school ending, then spent the first few hours of his summer in that exhaustion that hits after you finish something major.  Based on the noise I'm hearing right now from two people who have already been tucked into bed, he's getting a second wind.

Tate emptied his bank last week to purchase the stuffed snake that he saw at the zoo weeks ago.  He couldn't stop talking about it.  Blueblackwhite is already enjoying lots of quality time with Tate.

In bigger news, the gorillas have arrived.

Holly's love affair with toothpaste continues.  This afternoon she walked down the stairs squeezing a tube of red toothpaste as she went.  We haven't used the baby gate for awhile, but I shut at the bottom to trap her downstairs while I cleaned up the toothpaste.  While I was getting a rag, she ripped down the gate.  It's a good-looking hole, very deep.

We're just going to hang a picture over that.  It's only June 4 and we might as well see what the summer holds.  We'll deal with all the repairs in the fall.