Here’s a little bit of what we’ve done… hopefully I haven’t left out anything major, or gotten the details too messed up. Thanks to record high temperatures (all over 100 this week) we've spent a ton of time at Grandma's pool, and the children have LOVED every minute of it. All of them have made HUGE progress in the few short weeks that we’ve been together, trying new things and gaining confidence and strength in their abilities!
Thursday, 29 June - Everyone arrives safely and stop by for a few minutes to play at our house.
Friday, 30 June - Dinner and swimming at Grandma's. Grandma gives each child a pair of their own swimming goggles! (It took us a while, but we finally figured out how to get Sam's goggles to stay on his face without him looking like the Hunchback of Notredame.) And everyone also now have their own lounge chairs, complete with drink holders, for the deck.
Saturday, 1 July - Breakfast at Wheatfield’s, Dinner with Rita & David in Kearney, and fireworks at Sharon & Bills
Monday, 3 July - Family Pictures at Picture People, Lunch at Rainforest Cafe, and more swimming
Tuesday, 4 July - More Swimming, dinner, root beer floats, sparklers and fireworks
Thursday, 6 July - Sam goes to the Zoo with Merryn and Annalise while Rebecca and Emily are at horse back riding camp.
Friday, 7 July - Spanish Story Time at the Library with Aunt Elspeth and Merryn. Heard "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" and "No Matter What." read in both Spanish and English.
Saturday, 8 July - Swimming at Grandma's - Emily goes down the pool slide for the first time this summer. Rebecca starts to practice floating on her back and doing the back stroke.
Tuesday, 11 July - Swimming at Grandma's - Emily goes down the pool slide all by herself! Rebecca practices doing a summersault in the water.
Wednesday, 12 July - City Band Concert in the Park, Children's concert.
Picnic dinner in the park. Ice Cream at Sylas & Mady's. Rebecca, mint chocolate chip; Emily - chocolate; Sam - Berry Sorbet - just like the little kid sitting outside the ice cream shop. Thanks to Aunt Elspeth who stood in line with the girls and Merryn for ages, everyone got a balloon figure from our favorite balloon man (we met him earlier this summer at a bank opening). Rebecca got a butterfly hat, Emily a Barbie doll, Sam and airplane hat, and Merryn got a doggie she could wear on her wrist.
Friday, 14 July - Slumber Party at Grandma's for all the grandkids
Saturday 15 July - Sam's 3rd Birthday. Spiderman Party at Grandma's with a few friends, swimming, dinner and visits from Grandma Muti and Grandpa Art, Suz and Joe.
Monday, 17 July - Rebecca's last t-ball game. Temperatures at the beginning of the game hovered around 100 degrees so Merryn and Annalise enjoyed the first inning with us and then headed for home.
Tuesday, 18 July - Swimming and dinner at Grandma's - Merryn introduces Sam to the Little People Wal-Mart truck and store ... it was very difficult for him to choose between the toys and the pool, but the pool finally won. Gonna have to look for that one to add to the Little People collection. Rebecca and Emily organize show using cheer's Emily has been learning in her Cheerleading class - they teach Sam and Merryn the cheers and attempt to square dance (not sure where that came from?).
Wednesday, 19 July - Swimming and dinner at Grandma's - Merryn and Annalise's last night before flying home. Spent time in the pool, Rebecca and Emily spent most of their time going down the slide or jumping off the side of the pool. Gotta love Speedo life vests!
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We'll be heading to Merryn and Annalise's house in August ... 9th - 15th. Peter, Paul, and Mary will be performing at Wolftrap that weekend, and we've got tickets to go and see/hear them in concert - pray for decent weather please! We are really looking forward to spending sometime in the DC area and to see the cousins on their turf for the first time!
3 comments:
What a fun time! I love how you guys are so into doing community things...you are my link to the outside world! And yay for Becca & Emily's new swimming tricks!
I think you got it all! We all had such a wonderful time. I'm so glad we got to spend so much time with you all. I can't wait to sit down and look at the CD of pictures you made for us and make Merryn's photo album. She had such a great time, and she fell asleep tonight talking about which of her cousins was going to sleep in her bed when they come to her house to visit in a couple of weeks. There were also a couple of references to Cinderella, naturally.
Wow, what fun. I can't wait to finally have a W cousins' visit.
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