The girls attended a week of Hand Camp again this summer.  

Such a blessing!  They had a great time, and it does my heart good to have them in an environment where limb differences are totally normal.  

They came home tired, of course.

Grumman, impersonating a normal cat.  He doesn't usually do boxes.  

Oh, those pinterest ideas.  Sigh.  

I thought I'd try one of those pretty melted crayon canvases.  I kept seeing them in my feed and thinking how easy it looked to get great results.  

It was set to be 106*, so I put it out before we went to church and left it alone all day.  

The result was... disappointing.  

Hannah designs weapons in her spare time.  Rolled paper and paper clips became nunchucks.  She was contemplating adding marbles inside the tubes to give them more weight.  

Grumman was fascinated.  

He's a pretty boy.  

I love my first bulletin board this school year.  We have lots of paper book covers, and it was fun to get to use them creatively.  

Fiona, hiding in the shelves.

First day of school!  

Is it a bad sign when you go in for an office "procedure" and they give you a stress ball to squeeze if you feel any "discomfort"?

Hannah needed a pet photo for the yearbook, and Grumman grudgingly obliged.  He really does like her.  They have a whole routine where they play after her bath, and he claws her wet hair.  

We're on a hard boiled egg kick here.  One batch, I forgot to crayon them while they were hot (when they crayon melts against the shell, leaving a vivid THIS IS HARD BOILED! warning to anyone reaching for eggs) and my later attempts were faint Asian character looking lines.  

Oh Fiona.  That's not your most flattering pose, sweetheart.  

I saw this bus while I was out, and it mentioned free student passes.  I looked it up, and it's a pretty cool program.  On demand, corner to corner (as opposed to door to door) service.  We got Hannah a free pass at the library.  I think it would be good for her to learn to navigate public transport, I just haven't figured out where to have her go yet.  

Katie fell.  I admire her toughness.  She's a trooper.  

Hey, look, we've hit September!  We're really rolling along now!  My 9/11 book display.  

I had my 4th grade class make book cats inspired by my bulletin board.  It was a fun project.  I left them up for a couple weeks as library decor before sending them home.  

Whew!  I'll break this here.