Summery Fun

Yesterday it was HOT. So DH - that wonderful Daddy - was spraying the kids with a hose in the front yard. Yes, we do have a sprinkler and a slip and slide, but they like it old-fashioned. Anyway, after a while of that, it became clear that the fun thing to do would be too play in the little divot at the end of the driveway in the mud. (does anyone else find it sad that my kids have so little access to mud that they go for this tiny mudhole?)



Of course, after all that mud, you get to play with the hose again before Mommy will let you near the house. Extra fun!

Neglected

Sorry, I just have fallen out of my routine and am finding it VERY hard to get back. I exercised today for the first time in almost a week. It seems like summer started I have had a hard time focusing. My house has gone to pot and so have I!! Hopefully today is the first day to getting it all back..incuding this blog! Sorry I have been so bad at posting- and I have lots of fun stories to share including more beach adventures (7 women in a motorboat nobody knows how to drive, fun in the waves, birthday parties, etc) and other stuff (camp fun, learning to ride a bike without training wheels, etc).

Will get back to regular posting...I promise!

Heat Wave

This is just crazy. Its April and its 95-degrees in Washington, DC. But we tried to have some fun with the kids in my friend's backyard. Let's hope the heat breaks before next weekend, when I will be running the Race for Hope 5k.

My CRAZY girls

So here are my girls jamming to music at the last day at our pool. I swear there was music - even though you can't hear it here!

Lazy days of summer....maybe not!

With K in Kindergarten, we needed to figure out what to do with her all summer. You would think there would be some simple solution - but really, there isn't. We are lucky that our county offers a number of summer camps - but you have to sign up by the week. There is a basic camp offered right down the street. It is available most weeks - but not all. So you pretty much need a spreadsheet and matrix to figure out what to do. There are 11 weeks of summer (after school ends and before it starts again), and we are going on vacation for 2 weeks. That leaves 9 weeks.
Last week was the sign up day, and thank goodness, that part was not hard. They had suggested we have at least 2 choices for each week, in case certain ones were full. We got into all our first choices. The hardest part was figuring out what to sign her up for. She is going to the basic camp for 6 weeks, another "regular" camp for 1 week, a softball camp for 1 week (that should be interesting!) and a general sports camp for one week. I fear I will need a rigid list to remember where to drive her each week (and the different hours for each one). I can't imagine what it will be like when I have more than one kid in camp!

oh yeah, and by the way, you had to pay for all the summer camps NOW! At one time. nice.

Classes, scheduled activites on hiatus

So we decided that we will not have any classes or regularly scheduled activities for the summer. The kids are still young enough that we can get away with this, so we are going to! Their last classes were swimming and gymnastics this weekend. Now we are free until September.

This means we can work on going to the pool, geocaching, watching our house construction, etc. I can't wait! We started with a quick geocache after the last swimming class on Saturday. We went to find a cache we had tried once before. This time found it easy (note to self: follow the hints, not always just the GPS). The cache was at a nature center near our house, and the kids had the most fun stopping and watching a group of dragonflies appear to play hide and seek. Seriously. One would fly down into these bushes and wait. Then, after a few minutes, we'd see the others all flying around and eventually one would swoop down on the hider, and they would all go off until it started again. M was mesmerized. We had to pull her away, only by promising to go to the "cookie store" (aka Harris Teeter) for groceries. Gotta love the kids getting excited about grocery shopping!

Then we had a trip to the pool last night right after the last gymnastics class. Very relaxing, the 90-degree day had significantly warmed the pool. Everyone had fun, even big man, who loves splashing.

Here's to a less structured summer!