Flowers in the leaf press and other things
September 25th, 2006
My parents brought Cameron home last night. It is nice to have him back. On Saturday they went to the museum in Solomons (Cameron dug in the sand there and found a couple sharks teeth), went on a one-hour cruise, and watched some of a model boat regatta. It was windy and a lot of the boats were breaking. At one point Cameron saw two older gentlemen fixing their boat so he asked my parents if he could watch. The pictures my mom took are adorable as Cameron slowly crept forward until finally he was right there actually holding the string helping the men fix the boat. On Sunday they went to the Air and Space Museum and Cameron of course very much enjoyed the visit. The one thing that most interested him was that they sent a monkey into space before sending humans up. He told us all about that.
Along with Cameron, my parents brought the leaf press to us. My mom said it looked like something was being pressed. She didn’t know what as it’s been 8-10 years since she started it pressing! So Jamie helped the big kids open it up and there were lots and lots of flowers pressed in there. Mostly my mom had pressed black-eyed susans and clover. They are beautiful. The big kids spent over an hour sorting and playing with the flowers.
Fritz is doing much better this morning. He’s just a little bit stuffy. I’m glad his first illness wasn’t a very bad one.

How fun and exciting about the Leaf Press! That is very neat.
I am glad Fritz is doing better.