Like the Days of stopping at the Savoy, Now we freak, oh what a joy. Just come on down, two fifty four. Find a spot out on the floor

Interview went really well, I guess, since I just got a call asking for the second one. I don't know when yet, still playing phone tag. Yesterday on the way home from the interview I talked to LickSan, Carrie and Frank, but my phone battery went dead, so I didn't get to call Tracy or Mom. Work is slow to boring today. Thanks Carrie for getting me breakfast today.

Word(s) of the day: FELICITY

Lexie log: Oohhh the temperature is rising. We went to Somerset West park yesterday afternoon. It's across the street from RockCreek 185, an apartment complex I lived in ages ago. I remembered about it last weekend when we got caught in the rain at the teeny tiny park on Cornell, so we drove by to check it out. We stayed there for a couple hours yesterday afternoon. They have two toddler swings and four different slides off the jungle gym. She had a blast. First Daddy swung her super dooper high on the swing, almost making my stomach queasy. After awhile we moved to the playground. She really didn't want to leave the swing, except when we asked her if she wanted to slide. As is with every time I have taken her to a park with a big-toy/jungle gym thingy majigger, she moves to the 'next level' of coordination and skill. She has been getting into climbing a lot, and this park had just what she wanted. When she first started out, she was climbing the stairs at one end (skipping the first step each time) walking over the plank bridge and going down the easy, shady curvy slide. She was in a summer dress, and the slide are dark green plastic, so she picked the shadiest (coolest) one. I'm so glad they don't make metal slides that much anymore. Feeling a little adventurous, as she most often is, the next time she chose to go up some small, funky curved metal ladder to the middle level, bypassing the stairs and the bridge. Then she spotted this seven foot high vertical tube ladder, made of chain link and plastic, that went directly up to the slides. Oh man! She was on that in a flash. I spotted her in case she slipped, but basically she just cruised right on up the very first time. She even got applause from another child's dad who said she was an excellent climber already. About her third time going up it another child decided not to wait and started climbing up right on her heels. As I was staring at her, arms outstretched to spot Lex, thinking of how to gently tell this other child to back off, Lexie did the one and only slip off the rungs. Of course I was right there and caught her, but not before she thumped the space intruder on the head with her sandled feet. All was well however, Lexie now felt confident that if she slipped I would be right there to catch her, and the girl coming a step closer to learning that patience can be the less painful alternative. Now this is Lexie's chosen method to get to the top, and once she feels that she has mastered it, she is looking for a more daring way down. She progresses from the mild slope of the curvy slide to the almost vertical one. Needless to say, she had a blast and didn't want to leave. She was alseep before we even made it home. Today, Grammy is coming over and we should be setting up the pool. Yipee!!!!!

Today I'm grateful for Frank and Lexie, parks, coupons, humming birds, starlings, all are backyard birds and pine trees, breakfast, coffee, and swimming.