Here's the whole clan of Cook children. Michayla is the oldest at 12 and the tallest. She is now taller than me (like that's a big accomplishment). Then Katie 11, Tyler 9, Rebecca 7, Makenzie 7, Kaleb 6, Allison 3, and little Jocelyn who as of this post is 11 days old. Check out the tiny foot sticking out of the blanket. For anyone interested in seeing what my little brother is up to go to www.wgme.com/home/choose.html Then scroll down to the "Where's Amy" . Look for the "Tern Turnaround" story and click on WMV. You'll see the video of the island and the project and Robby. Very cool. He's been working at Stratton Island in Maine for a long time. He's very knowledgeable about birds and really wildlife in general. His thing is definitely birds though. Even when we were little I remember weekend afternoons watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. I think it's pretty great that he is doing what he loves. He really is an expert in his field with even college professors seeking his knowledge about different things. Now we just need to him to get married while at least one of my girls is young enough to be a flower girl! I guess he kind of needs a girlfriend first, eh?
Soccer tryouts went well. There's two more tryout times later in July. We'll see if she makes the team. Even if she doesn't make travel there's the house league and an intramural league at the middle school. Both Katie and Becky will start piano lessons the first week in August. A very talented woman at our church gives lessons at her home. I'm so excited. Most piano teachers around here charge $25 per lesson, our teacher charges about half that!
We're hanging out at home mostly this weekend. Tuesday morning we'll head to the parade and then that night we are going to a baseball game and fireworks. In Maine every year we went to the parade in Bath. We always ran into plenty of people we knew and the kids came home with tons of candy. Then we went to Freeport for a nice fireworks display. Usually we went with family and brought snacks and sparklers. Time for new traditions. I'm looking forward to the ball game. I hope Allison is at least a little interested in it.
Happy Fourth of July!
