Popsicles with Emmy

Everyone's got their thing - and Cooper's is definitely popsicles!

Hmm, popsicle?

Yay! Popsicle high! ...and mama gets a break

...and then the crash...

YMCA HighTouch / HighTech

Check out Cooper in his school's weekly newsletter updating the kids' families about special events.  This past Friday, a team from "High Touch - High Tech Science" showed Coop's class all about light.  Whenever we ask him how school was, he usually just says "I played with cars".  Now he wants to play with flashlights!

Colorful Thunderhead

Saw this today on my way to pick Cooper up from school. It's a thunderstorm on its way, but the colors spewing out its top caught my eye more than anything. Here are a few pictures:

Key West Fishing

This post is a couple weeks late - I'll blame it on a little surge of work and some weird flu symptoms.
Nevertheless, we all had fun during the trip.  We started bright & early at 6:30 every morning ...at least we did in our hosts' house on base!  Some outings included fishing on the big-ship pier, the Eco-center off Duval (air conditioned!), and cooling off in the swimming pool.
The fishing was great that Monday, with a charter that came highly recommended through Jessica's cousins.  We started off excited about the weather, since the overcast skies afforded us a break from the day's heat.  The fishing started off slow on two levels:
  1)  I realized that the Langley boys think of fishing as an activity, as opposed to sitting back trolling.
  2)  Nothing was attacking the lines, except an occasional clump of sargasso.
Once the captain realized that the currents weren't helping us find any dolphin, we hit some reefs and fished the bottom.  That hit both of the keys above: lots of reeling and lots of fish!  Big amberjacks, half of which made out to the boat in one piece (damn sharks!).