Wed. AM, June 14, 1978
Dear Mom, Dad, and Mary Virginia,Hi! Sorry I didn't get a letter off to you last week but my duties as tour director kept me pretty busy. Gerry's folks really got a whirlwind tour but they seemed to enjoy it. We all enjoyed Yosemite, especially the waterfalls and the giant sequoias. We hope to go there again in July after DeeDee is here (not on the 4th though).
Last night we had Alice (the woman I met at Newcomers) and her 7-year-old daughter over for dinner as her husband is out of town for the week. She and I are the co-chairman of the Newcomers membership committee. This afternoon I am going with her to Northridge which is the shopping center on the northside of Salinas. And later this morning Wendy and I are going to the park where the Las Madres 1977 is having a parkday. Las Madres is the organization of mothers of preschool children which is divided into groups according to the birthday of the child. I have met a couple other 77 mothers thru Newcomers but we should meet some more today. So we have been keeping pretty busy.
The weather has been beautiful – clear sunny days with a cool breeze. Wendy and I went for a bike ride yesterday since we hadn't been at all last week except on Sunday when we rode with Gerry over to see how the truck was doing in the garage. We haven't checked the car yet to see if the engine is burned out or possibly it is just the oil pump – at any rate it will cost us some money to get it repaired – if it can be. The truck meanwhile still needs some work and a tune-up which we hope to have taken care of next week.
Gerry has been working hard but he is training his new man now and hopefully he will work out. This new man is 35 and married with 3 kids so perhaps he will be more stable than the others have been. Gerry did get some bonus this month so we bought a few things we have been wanting – two lawn chairs – the lounger (plastic) variety, a coleman cook stove, a new sleeping bag for DeeDee (the old one will be passed down to Wendy), a set of binoculars which were on sale at Sears so we got a good buy on them. We had hoped also to get an AM/FM portable radio with 8-track player with the optional car hookup or plug-in at Best Products but they were all out of stock so we will wait on that for awhile.
Wendy loves to stand up now and lean on whatever is handy – the sofa or coffee table or in her playpen. She can stand up real well in her walker which I'm sure helps to strengthen her leg muscles. Whenever I try to sit her down she stiffens her legs right up so that i have to lie her down instead. She can pull herself up to a kneeling position but not into the complete stand yet. although one day she did pull herself up onto the wicker stool. Sometimes she sits back down very gracefully – although slowly – and other times she just plops right down on her bottom.
We think one of her bottom teeth is about to come through as you can feel a bump on her gum.
Love, Gerry, Catherine & Wendy
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