Return of Summer

Wow - summer has come quickly for those of us in Arizona.  The days of highs in the 80's seem to be in the past, as today's high approached 100-degrees.  Ahh, summer in the desert.

Now that Alexa is enrolled in a Saturday morning swim class, our Sundays are now lesson-free, giving us an entire day without any commitments. Yeah!  Alexa and I made the best of the high temperatures by taking a swim in the pool this afternoon, much of which was spent floating around on a raft in the pool.  She also seemed to be enjoying her "My Little Pony" kickboard, although she uses it more like a boogie board than a kickboard.  Oh well, she was having fun in the water, so that's all that really matters.

I was watching a show on HGTV today, and the network was running a promo that consisted on a montage of viewer-submitted photos of families and their homes.  One of the pictures tat flashed across the screen was a photo of a newborn baby in a knitted stocking.  Alexa, who was drawing in her sketchbook on the floor, immediately yelled, "Granty!  Look, Mommy!  Granty was on tv!"  I felt terrible breaking the news to her that it wasn't a picture of Granty, but rather another baby.  The baby really didn't look too much like Grant, but I think it is yet another demonstration of how much Alexa thinks about her baby brother.  Similar to the rest of us, Granty is never far from her thoughts - he'll always be "the cutest little baby ever" in the eyes of his big sister.

Granty made sure his sister shared the spotlight with him,
even if it meant having to push her out of the way :)