Kid's Club and Pool

We met up with the Curran's today and the kids in their neighborhood that were having a Kid's Club. They did water balloons, chalk, played a few games and had a popsicle. It was run by a 5th grader and 2nd grader. Later this afternoon, we went to see Miss Misty, the lady that does the story time at our library. She plays the guitar and sings. The girls love her and had fun singing and dancing. Then, tonight the girls had their first private swim lessons. Since the weather was rainy earlier in the afternoon, the pool was mostly empty. So, after the lesson, we stayed and swam. I think the girls went down the yellow slide 75 times...they were tired! No pictures of the pool because I was too busy watching the kids!

Kid's Club

Proof they swam at the pool and also proof I let them stay up past 7PM (sometimes). We left the pool at 7:45.

Park and Green Box

Sometimes I can coax the girls to sit for a bit to watch Jack's class and sometimes I take them to the park. Today, I wanted to watch Jack's class because I knew they would get to do fun things like jump off the diving board and slide down the slide. But, the girls were antsy and wanted to play, so I took them. After Jack's class, we went back to the park to play and do the craft from the green box.

They said they were driving to Mimi's house.

Anna asked Kate to drive for her while she finished her sandwich.

Green box craft

Last Day of Swim Lessons #1

It was the last day of the first sesson of swim lessons. They did some basic tests and then let the kids do the slides. I think my girls were the only ones in their preschool class to go down the slide...over and over and over again. These girls have NO fear!

 

Free Tacos

The kids got to pick out their prize at the library for the reading program. Every ten days they read for 20 minutes (girls) or 30 minutes (Jack), they can pick out a prize. Jack wanted the free taco at Taco Bell coupon, so he talked the girls into getting that coupon too. Today, after the track, tennis and swimming, we went to Taco Bell to collect our free tacos. The girls have never eaten at Taco Bell and they were in heaven! They loved the tacos (except the lettuce)! Jack has already informed me for their next prize he wants to get the free kids meal at Applebees. Thanks to Aunt Sue Sue and the Frazier girls that read to the girls last weekend while we were in Arkansas!

I love they can still wear these dresses. This is the third summer they have worn them. They wore at their second birthday party as a dress, then last summer with bike shorts and this summer as a top. I crack up they are size 6-12 month dresses--obviously they run very big! Here they are walking to get Jack from Tennis so we could get our tacos.

In addition to the prize yesterday, the library was handing out free kid's meals at Chipolte. So we will have a free dinner next week from those!

Track Days

I took the kids to the track (or as Anna calls it the train track) this morning before swimming and tennis. I usually meet a friend and do a track workout, but today I was solo because she had a sick child. Jack ended up running just over a mile on the track and the girls probably ran 1/2 mile. I love that they enjoy to run. I don't encourage them to run at all, they just want to. The rest of the time they played at the "beach"...aka long jump sand pit. I remembered to bring buckets and shovels. They were well behaved and had fun. After the track, we headed to swim lessons and tennis.

Rain

The Curran's came over to run though the sprinkler...and the minute we got sunscreen on them it started to rain...just a pop up summertime thunderstorm. Before it started to thunder and lighting, the kids played outside in the warm rain. It lasted about 30 minutes, but we ended up losing power for five hours because of that storm. Thankfully, the back-up battery on our sump kept up during the power outage.

 

Dentist

All four kids went to the dentist today and I made it through for the first time by myself! Whew! But, I had to sandwich in their appointments between swim lessons...so it was a lot of driving for me back and forth to the pool and the dentist. Jack's appointment was during the girls' swim lessons and the girls' appointment was during Jack's swim lessons. All four came away without any cavitites, but the girls are supposed to floss once a day (got to add more time to the day somehow) because now their back molars are touching and Elizabeth's back molars they said we need to watch and really need to floss because of the way they sit together.

Anna was first and all smiles!

 

Elizabeth was the most nervous. I had to hold her hand.

 

Another Trip to Arkansas, Swimming and Baseball

Jack, Amy, Grandmom and Mimi and I went to Arkansas for the weekend to look at our new house and hopefully line up some contractors to do some work before we move in. It was a quick trip, especially with the driving, but it was fun. The kids did great and Jack enjoyed seeing his new room. Aunt Sue Sue, again, watched the triplets. And they had a blast!

Here are few pictures of the weekend and a few from Jack's baseball game tonight. He only has a few more games.

 

 

Jack played in the splash pad while the girls had their swim lesson.