Thursday, July 20, 2017

Summer Camps

Both Caiden and Grace did a summer camp at the new school they will be starting at in the Fall. The camp was two weeks, Monday through Friday from 9am-12. I had no clue how Grace would do at drop off -if you recall Caiden screamed bloody murder for the first three days when he went to camp.

The teachers decided to keep them in the same class for camp which at first I wasn't a fan of. I thought Caiden would be bored but they do the same activities for all of the Preschool through Kindergarten kids so it didn't make much of a difference. There were kids from 3-5 in the class (although Grace was the youngest of all since she's still not three).

Them being in the same class was actually amazing. She marched right in there on the first day, said, "bye, mom" and off she went and sat next to Caiden for morning circle. I'm not sure it would have been the same experience if Caiden wasn't with her. And she loved it! She is so excited to start school now and I'm hoping even though they won't be in the same classroom she'll be familiar with the environment and jump right in.

Marc was able to drop them off a couple of days! Selfie time!

Caiden did Outpost Summer Camp the past two weeks also. He really loved it and asked if he could go more days.  The first day after I picked him up he said, "We didn't spend anytime in a classroom, it was all outside! We trekked through a jungle (really just some palm trees and bamboo on about an acre), left some food for a panda, and found a snail trail!" Grace was quite pissed when she couldn't stay so I kept promising her she'll do it next year when she's old enough.

The first day when we picked him up he had paint all over his body. Grace was quite intrigued when she saw him and wasn't sure what to think. He said he was painted with tiger stripes.

The second day they tie-dyed a shirt. Caiden could not have been happier to wear it the next day of camp.




For the rest of the summer Caiden is doing swim lessons twice a week, we're going to hit up the beach...and wait for Baby Cousin to arrive!!!

Monday, July 17, 2017

4th of July 2017

We spent about 6 hours at the beach this year and skipped naps. We had a huge group of people and even though it's a pain parking and dragging yourself through all the people it's the only place I would spend the 4th! And since the kids didn't nap they went to bed when it was still light out!

I regret to say these are the only pictures we got. It's so hard dragging your phone around in a wet and sanding swimsuit.


Caiden played with this stick and red cup for a couple of hours. He said he was doing something with the sun but I can't recall exactly...haha