Saturday, July 28, 2012

Eight

Perhaps, with all the change in color and the new stuff on the page, you didn't notice the eighth portrait on our Web site. Meet our new kitten whose name, for reasons that would be obvious to anyone who spent time around her, is Ambush.

Ambush has been anticipated for some time, although her name was a complete surprise. Daniel, whose kitten Ambush is, has bandied about a variety of names for the past several weeks, most of them Japanese, since he is interested these days in anime, animation from Japan. So we though the kitten might end up with a name like Yoko. But then Ambush took a surprise flying pounce at William, and so her name was born.

Danny has written the first draft of a little picture book about the anticipation and eventual arrival of Ambush, and I'll post a link to it once we've managed to get it into print (that's right, print; modern technology means that anyone can publish for next to no money—amazing!).

William's working on a book, too, about some space aliens trying to get back home (and he hasn't even seen E.T. as far as I know). We're trying to have both books ready to go soon after the boys return to school.

In addition to a little writing, summer vacation has included a lot of swimming. The boys take lessons four days a week until the end of this week, and then I'm sure there will be at least as many beach days in the weeks that follow. We're also trying to spend some time together drawing, although we've done much too little of that. And there's been lots of reading.

All-in-all a typical summer vacation at the Brooks house. By the time school's back in, William and Daniel will be ready to return to their friends.

And I'll be ready for the extra time to get work done.

No comments: