Summertime, summertime

We are enjoying the summer weather, although it is quite a change from an English summer. A little rain would help to cool us off and keep the grass in our yard from dying. We did get a little from Edouard but it might not be enough.

Christa and Austin spend their days off going to the library, playing in the park, and playing in the little red caboose. The caboose is near the museum in town and not red at all but that's what Austin calls it, so that's what it is. Sometimes we get to see real trains going by on the tracks behind the museum. Austin loves it but is still scared by the train's whistle as the engine passes.

A few of our summertime evenings have been spent going to some summer baseball games. Austin has really enjoyed them and even asked unbidden one Sunday night to go see one. Since summer baseball ended a few weeks ago, Austin and Faimon spend some of their evenings watching the Rangers on TV. Austin will get out of bed at night sometimes asking to watch racing cars on TV (he has taken a liking to NASCAR) but will settle for baseball if that's what Faimon is watching.

Austin is 2 1/2. We tried to get some good pictures of him to send out but, as you can see from the pictures below, he is much more interested in playing and making noise than in posing for pictures.