Day 2103. Yesterday Randy and the kids had to get up very early - a little foretaste of what it's going to be like in fall when they start going to school. Randy got up at 6 am to make breakfast, and at 6:45 we had to work on getting Tammy and Emmy out of bed; they were on either side of me. They really didn't want to get up that early, but we got them to, and they went to the table to have breakfast.

Day 2101. The day the kids had been looking forward to had come - Schoolbag Day. We got their schoolbags down that they had already seen once, I made sure the straps fit them and put the bags on them. They are sure huge for them, but that's the way schoolbags are, at least in Austria. They were very excited about them.

Day 2099. Yesterday I left the house with Tammy and Emmy at 10 am to take them to their piano class. Randy had already left with Sammy an hour earlier to go pick up a second-hand kid's bike. They then took it home before taking the subway to meet us at the music school after class.