With a great whoop, the boys race up the hill in search of adventure. They run, dodge, duck, and hide. They thrive on the undertaking of brave exploits and flirt with any activity including an element of potential danger. As my little caped crusaders traipse about our bit of neighborhood ‘desert’ one suddenly goes sliding down. Shrieks […]
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Presidential Breakfast!
Whew. I’m coming up for air. It has been a crazy couple of weeks as we’ve been settling into a new routine. Our math books finally arrived and everything is in place to get back going 100%. July and early August are usually more carefree days – full of free play, reading good books and […]
Bean Bag and Balloon Olympics
With the arrival of the Olympics, my boys are in an especially competitive mood, eagerly desiring to showcase their athletic prowess! But the heat this last week has been I.N.T.E.N.S.E! I think I may have chosen one of the hottest days of the year to run errands in the middle of the afternoon. ugh. So in […]
Attacking Crazy Birthday Week…
Duuun dun, duuun dun… {cue theme song from JAWS.} ** Selfishness was alive, well and on the hunt. I just chuckle as I think back to the silly angst I felt at wanting to make sure I would have my own birthday 8 years ago. He ended up making his grand entrance into the world 8 […]
Olympic Play
I love the creativity that the Olympics brings out in children. When we were little, my sisters and I would race out to our pool and try all kinds of creative dives and then critique and inspire each other to try new tricks! Or we would set up a track and field match in the […]
Our Daily Dose of Science!
Monsoon season has a way of luring us outdoors… The smell of the creosote, the dip in temperature and puddles, puddles everywhere! I think the boys couldn’t be more pleased with the ‘daily outdoors challenge’. They know that if I’m feeling iffy on going outside that they can just bring this up and hold me accountable! […]