Dear Mary,

My, my you are a little character. I just love seeing your personality emerge. Talking running, dancing playing - eating anything but veggies (I hide them in your food sometimes)You and Daddy now love to go to Monkey Joe's. It's been a super-hot summer, so he has had to think of creative ways to keep cool. 

Every Tuesday during summer we go to the Main Beach for a concert and picnic dinner. We meet Marmee and Grampy, and some of their friends there. You spin and stomp, and eat a ton of fruit! It's going to be sad when the concerts are done at the end of this month!

Aunt Cortney, Uncle Ken, Meg and Zoe were in town - Cortney was trying soooo hard to be your buddy all week, you were resistant at first, but then you loved showing her your books and playing with her. Above is a picture of the night before Cortney and Ken went back home. You and Cortney were rough-housing when Marmee was trying to go to bed, you were so wound up, you didn't go to bed until 10:30p. You also had a lot of fun playing with Meg and Zoe. You LOVE being around big girls. When you spend the day with Marmee on Thursday, she let you go up in their room to wake them up. You climbed up on their beds and played with their stuffed animals and looked at all of Zoe's pretty things. It was fun to see how they acted toward you - they were really great with you. One night, you offered Meg a pretzel that you had been holding in your hand for a while. She put it in her mouth and said, "Oh, that's all spitty, but you're my cousin, so okay"- It really warmed my heart that Meg ate your soggy pretzel :)

This is a day at Main Beach, I was playing in the sand with you and then you just walked straight out into the water in your clothes. You and Daddy are both water babies, I joke that you inherited his gills. You have been a little fuss-monster lately. I couldn't tell why, and then I see that you have a ton of new teeth in your mouth. Poor baby, you are in pain! But I'm happy the teeth are coming in, a lot of other little ones your age have a lot more teeth thank you do, and we have a lot of foods to try. Chew! Chew!

Just a quick update for you today, You and I are off to do errands right now.

I love you, Mary.

Love, Mommy