I invite you to consider the above a teaser/placeholder image, a foretaste of coming photo-essay updates. We have only recently gotten back online in a truly multimedia sense. In the interval between the present and the most recent photographic posts - which are very old by now - much has occurred. It'll take some time to load all of those photos (not to mention the accompanying narratives). They will, however slowly, be posted eventually.

Kent has begun playing soccer, and he loves it. He's also quite adept. His excitement is nearly impossible to contain; we've had to work on upper-body control, as he's apt to throw a few elbows in the thick of things.  We're looking forward to another game tomorrow (10/8). 

Maeve, meanwhile, has taken up dancing at a studio in town. (That's right: even in Clarksville, AR, such things exist. But good luck finding coffee that's not from a gas station.) She is just as excited about her weekly dance time as Kent is about soccer. There is, notably, one key difference between their current hobbies, viz., we are not allowed to watch Maeve and her terpsichorean cronies go through their routine.

Yeah, I'm serious. They practice behind a big blue vinyl divider (see above). We can hear the music, but what she's learning is utterly mysterious. The reason for this, we're told, is that parents are distracting. We'll be treated to a recital at the end of the course, at which point all that Maeve has learned in secret will be made manifest.

So, stay tuned. There's more to come.

ps Patrick wrote this post.  (I don't want people to think that I got a crazy awesome vocabulary during the time that we were offline and expect such things of me.)