>frankie’s gymnastics…tell me if this works!

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Grow Frankie Grow!

And not to be outdone…. Go Bee!

>Here is how frankie spent the morning. She must have done the dive onto the couch from the toybox about 100 times. OK pardon the mess that is our side room or “parlor” as Bee likes to say!

>Click on the image above for a slide show of our trip.

>we took a little family vacation this week, and packed up the kids, some clothes, and some beach items and headed out to the kal-haven trail. Scott pulled the girls while I pulled the clothes through the green, lightly rolling hills of south western michigan. We stopped half way in Bloomingdale for popsicles, blueberries, and nice cold water. We spent a couple of days in south haven at the beach. Frankie fearlessly waded out to her shoulders, while Bee became an expert sand castle and moat builder/digger. The sunsets were beautiful and the weather was perfect! I cant wait for our next bike trip!

Here are a few action-packed flicks from the covered bridge about a mile west of south haven.

And now for some fun pictures!

This picture was at Bloomingdale’s Old Train station, and the girls loved the flag decorations, the train, and the creepy boy! (picture of creepy boy is too creepy to post…)

Bee getting water for the moat

Scott taking frankie out of the water… that girl was a little duckie!!

enjoying popsicles halfway home!

>Colleen (my SIL) tagged me to list 4 things I have learned/did in the past 4 years and 4 things I hope to learn/do in the next 4. So here goes:
1. had not one, but two kids and am learning how to be what I hope is caring, loving, good mommy
2. bike trip with scott and girls to the lake along the Kal-Haven trail (where we carried everything on our bikes!).. see upcoming post
3. started a blog with scott for our family, and also started a blog with my sisters and parents for our family
4. visted Japan with my family

what would be new adventures
1. visit a few states we’ve never been to before (the dakotas, montana, alaska)
2. teach the girls to read
3. teach the girls to ride bicycles
4. plant and cultivate some blueberry bushes in our yard (yum!)

OK, stay tuned for the details on our bike trip. But suffice it to say that was a BLAST!!

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a poem by Bee and Frankie

Koompa Loompa sat on a wall
Koompa Loompa had a great fall
Koompa Loompa come and play
Koompa Loompa run in the hay
Koompa Loompa she’s a good dog
Koompa Loompa grampsed on the log!!
Koompa Loompa likes to eat food
Koompa Loompa eats all the food
Koompa Loompa find Cinderella
Koompa Loompa find her magic shoe
Koompa Loompa find Snow White
Koompa Loompa then take a bubble bath
and go to bed!

The end!

>…3 posts in day…

here is a picture from our garden. We’ve been eating tomatoes this week!

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We were looking at some old pics today and came across this!

Lets get a written record of this song! Frankie, our daughter, wanted us to sing it over and over yesterday! I learned it in 4th grade music class way back in 1977-78. My sisters and i LOVED that song! I still do!

Orion is arising

Orion is arising
You can see his stars ablazing
Way out here in the middle of a deep blue country sky.
And still what is amazing
You can see his stars ablazing
Way out here where nothing hides it from my eyes.

And sleeping outside in a bag as a kid
It seems like the best thing that I ever did
And chasing the shadows
and the tracks in the snow
Don’t you know?

The world is getting older
and I really start to wonder
why we’re clouding all the country skys to gray
The world is getting colder
I can hear it in the thunder
and the rain may come and chase us all away!

And sleeping outside in a bag as a kid
It seems like the best thing that I ever did
And chasing the shadows
and the tracks in the snow
Don’t you know?

The moon is on the wane
And it looks like it might rain
Or maybe snow.

And how are we to stay here
When there’s no room left to play here
Or to grow
Don’t you know?
Don’t you know?

Speedracer adds: Google helped me find the back-story, along with reminiscences of a lot of Gen Xers.

Update: Here’s a blog post with a performance by the songwriter.