Well, it's not too much of a change having a four year old around the house now! Accalia had a really nice birthday on Saturday, and overall our weekend of camping with family and friends went well. We're all still exhausted, though, and I think Accalia is going to have to catch up on sleep one of these days.

Today we made a partial attempt at getting things back in order. I didn't try too hard, though :) Accalia had dance today and had fun as usual. One of the moms complimented Accalia. She asked me if Accalia had taken dance before. When I said no, she said Accalia just seems like a natural. Nothing like compliments to warm a mother's heart! I'm not sure if Accalia actually has a natural ability for dance or if those hours of imitating Angelina Ballerina are paying off.

Tonight our library held a kick off party for the summer reading program. There were a bunch of games for the kids to play outside, including Duck, Duck, Goose. It was hilarious watching Accalia. She doesn't quite get the concept of a lot of these games, and so every time someone was picked as "goose", Accalia would jump up and run around with them, too. One time she was actually chosen to be "goose" and managed to outrun the bigger boy by cutting through some of the parents standing nearby. Very funny. There was also a puppet show, which Accalia had been looking forward to for quite some time.

Cory got some extremely good news last week at work that I haven't had a chance to write about. His supervisor came into his office and told him that the therapist at the prison in Springfield (about a half hour from Yankton) was being fired the next day - long overdue in most people's minds. And Cory would be taking his place! Cory's first day there is tomorrow, and we are so incredibly happy! No more 3 hours of commuting each day! No more $200 in travel expenses taken out of the budget! Of course the best thing of all is that Cory will be at home more often and his stress level will definitely be lower. So we're all very happy about this.

I keep forgetting to mention that Cole's birth story is in the current issue of Pandora's Box Magazine. Keara has done another wonderful job as usual.