This summer has been a blur! We have hardly been home! Major started off the summer by getting his braces off. His teeth look big! He might have to have them again when all his big teeth come in, but we will have to wait and see.
The kids have been begging me to have a “Chocolate Day”. I said they could in the summer. According to them, this is a day when you only eat chocolate. We started off with Cocoa Puffs for breakfast. Then I gave them each several candy bars that were supposed to be spaced out during the day. They were eaten immediately and then no one wanted any more chocolate for the rest of the day. We were supposed to have Nutella sandwiches for lunch and chocolate enchiladas (mole) for dinner. I don’t think the kids will want to do that again. But it was a great memory!
Major is doing swim team all summer at Taylor pool. He is doing really well. He won 4th and 5th place in the freestyle, 1st place in backstroke, and helped his team win 2nd place in the backstroke relay. He loves getting the ribbons and wants one of each color!
Lucy and Juliette took a session of swim lessons at Taylor and loved it! Juliette especially loved it and asks me all the time when the next session is. (She cried all through private lessons last year).
Major took a two week session of basketball camp and learned a lot. He likes basketball a lot more now. I’m glad, because that is the “Mormon” sport. Boys always play basketball at scouts, as a missionary and with the other men in the ward. It’s just something to have to know how to do. But his first love is soccer. Clint has even been getting him to watch it on TV occasionally.
Major and Lucy did MCC Musical Theatre this year for the first time. Major was great! Lucy was cute, but I think she was a little too young. They had a great time! Carol’s performance is next week and we are excited to see it. This is her first year in the older kids group.
Carol also did a one week volleyball camp. She loved it! She plays volleyball at school during recess so this should really help. Carol is learning to cook this summer. Each week she plans a meal and I help her make it. She begged me to make strawberry pies, so I had her do it. She did everything except roll out the crust and put it in the pan. (That was a little difficult).
Lucy had her 6th birthday party last week. She wanted a water party, so we did a fish theme. We had a fish piñata, fish decorated cake and water games like “fishing”, and playing in the water. The girls had so much fun! Carol and Major ran all the games. I hardly had to do anything. It was great!
We also had an “Unbirthday Party” for cub scouts. All the boys brought their own presents and they decorated their cupcake and sang to themselves. We played games and had a great time.We have also been doing the reading program at the library. But it’s been hard squeezing in the reading time!
I have also been having the kids learn to clean. They have been cleaning bathrooms, washing windows, mopping, vacuuming, doing laundry and ironing. They just don’t have time during the school year for this much cleaning. It takes us about three hours to divide up the house and do it. I’m glad for the help this summer, but I won’t mind when I get to do it again in the fall. The quality just isn’t that good yet. Major cleaned the windows with a soaking wet towel. Sigh. Although Carol does a pretty good job.
And here is a picture of Juliette taken by Carol. Juliette keeps up laughing with her somersaults, singing and jumping off everything!
