Day Camp

Evan on Circus Day - he's a chiquaqua

This is the first summer the boys are not going to a daycare facility for the summer.  They are going to summer camp.  What's the difference?  Summer Camp (in my book) is outside all day type stuff with some swimming if possible.  Daycare is usually not (they go outside but it's not the homebase).  Gretchen has been doing a YMCA camp the last few years where she gets to go swimming and boating every day, archery and other fun stuff.  She loves it.  I was worried about sending Sean and Evan since Sean is a bit of hard case to transition to new settings especially since they are doing two different camps.  The good news is the are both really enjoying it!  No more whining about not wanting to go to school.  No more teary pleas to go to work with us (true story).  They are getting so big!  I miss them as babies but when they get in the car from being at camp and they are excited to tell me what they did that day, I am so happy.

And we have 2 more scouts in the family.....

The boys joined Cub Scouts last month....  Now Steve is the only "non scout" in the family.  Evan really took to it and was making friends.  Sean likes it but he is definitely easing into it.  Compared to Evan his pace is so much slower but I know that if ends up liking it, he'll get comfortable.  We went to a Cross Over Camp out but we didn't camp.  I'm hoping to take them early fall.  Balancing Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts is gonna be tricky but these faces remind me it's worth it....

Cowboy Day

Kindergarten counts down the last days of the year with the alphabet.  Today is C day which is Cowboy day.  I bought these hats last year for the same purpose and they still look so cute in them!  Please don't grow up!

Evan's Tooth

Evan lost his first tooth last night!  Sean was a touch sad that he hasn't lost one of his.  Sean just saw the dentist so we know that adult teeth are coming up under the baby ones.

California Adventure

For Spring Break we took an actual vacation:  flew to Anaheim on Sunday and came back on Friday. Sunday we hit the Discovery Museum (its in the shape of a cube) and then some swimming at the hotel, Monday we hit Disneyland, Tuesday we went to Legoland, Thursday we went to the other Disney park California Adventure and Friday we headed home.  It was exhausting but fun.  We left Six Flags early to hit the Hollywood Sign and the Star Walk but traffic was so bad that we ended up just looking at it from the car..... I don't think the kids would've been able to handle it.  Sean surprisingly was a bit fearful at Disney.  All the rides in Fantasyland were too dark for him but literally and figuratively.  We had to force him on to Space Mountain and he flat out refused to go on a lot of coaster when Evan could not go (Evan is 3 inches shy of the 48 in height requirement).  Of course the kids wanted to go swimming every day but the weather was not extremely warm.  We tried to fit swimming and hot tub in after the day's activities.  All in all we had a great time.  Evan is already asking what we're doing on our next vacation.  We told him camping... he did not seem as excited.  Hard to top this adventure I guess....  Check out the exhaustive pics here.

Finally got to meet Mickey the last day at Disney

Swim Class

To get the boys ready for the pool this summer we put them in swim class (Grandma takes them to gymnastics).  I wanted to do karate but swim class made more sense right now.  Evan likes it but I was worried about Sean since he does not like getting in the water (he's fine when he there but doesn't like getting in initially).  Both of them really love it.... which is good... they'll be in it until summer gets here....

Happy New Year

The kids made it to about 11pm.....  which is fine by us... we had a lot of poppers and streamers....