Levynn...

She finished her baseball "season" tonight with a career-high three at-bats (all ground balls up the middle as usual) and a successfully-executed play in the field (her throw hitting the leg of a wayward teammate excepted, of course!).

But all that matters is she enjoys it, unlike the soccer experience last fall. So we'll take it!

Oh, and we'll soon have a swimmer on our hands, too!

Levynn has started her last two pool outings "swimming" like this:



Then she finished both actually swimming like this:



Uncle Colin and Aunt Katey can vouch for it!

Now, what's with the quote marks here, used in so-called scare quotes?

The other night Dad and Levynn were reading "Knuffle Bunny Too" - one of our old picture books - and Levynn asked about the quote marks in this sentence, accompanying a photo of the character looking disgustedly at her food: Trixie "ate" her dinner. Dad replied that in an instance like that they can mean something isn't really true.

That may be a poor off-the-cuff explanation, but Levynn seemed to get the idea. Moments later, she brought a doll to the couch and said it was going to "listen" to the story. How does Dad know she meant "listen" and not just listen?

This is how.