Jakob's Going Home (backlog 4/10)

Saturday morning Jakob will begin his trip home, back to North Carolina, just in time for his school to start on the 24th. We think that ol' Uncle Ed and Aunt Linda have provided the lil' guy with a fun summer, including:

-Trips to Kings Dominion, Hershey Park, and the Science Center
-Trips to the movies to see all the latest summer kids movies.
-Trips to the pool with "Aunt Linda" (who got a "single parent" membership at the local YMCA for the summer. $170. Good deal. Go linda!)
-A few trips to stay with his Grandma and Grandpa.
-And countless hours of cartoons in the morning and playing video games with Uncle Ed in the evenings.

So, I think he'll be able to look back on his 7 week stay with us as a positive experience.

Linda just wrote me an e-mail from home saying that he had just realized that he only had 2 more days left up here, and it has thus been a pretty sad morning. It's no wonder he doesn't want to leave -- we let him stay up late, play video games, take him to cool places. Not exactly the most disciplined or structured of environments, but Linda and I have a feeling he gets structure in spades during the school year. A little summer of chaos never hurt anyone.

Truthfully, it's those summers of chaos that we remember (and reminisce about) the most.