Start of summer

Its only been officially summer for a week, but I think we are off to a great start. We do not have a lot planned for June, but once July hits we are nonstop with camps for James and Madeleine and lots of trips until school starts (as a matter of fact, James is missing his first day of school because we will be out of town!). So June we are taking it easy and just enjoying summer and our friends.

Now that James is out of school, he doesn't let Matthias out of his sight for very long. I think hes trying to make up for all the time he lost while he was at school.

Starting the Buckeye Love early!

Matthias hates tummy time - like seriously hates it. So we keep trying to trick him into it by starting on his back before rolling him to his tummy. He hasn't fallen for it yet but the kids like getting into his mat to play with him.

James is still very into dinosaurs - we made triceratops bones out of concrete and he is trying to draw and document them like a real paleontologist would do. And Madeleine is Princess Aurora watching him. I have several big dinosaur activities that I'm going to try and space out over the summer for him.

Matthias' first trip to the pool wasn't very exciting - he slept through it. But it was nice to snuggle with him while watching the other two swim.

Madeleine loves to help cook, whenever we are in the kitchen shes always checking to see if she can help and if she cant she always stays to watch. Its great to have her in the kitchen, James was always curious but he didn't really want to get involved like she does.

This summer there is a pick up soccer game on Saturday mornings at 8am. Since I'm up anyways, I walk James and Matthias down to let James play. Its only ever 5-8 kids but it is so much fun for him and a great way to kick off the weekend. By the time we walk home, Madeleine is up and helping John make breakfast!

Yesterday, our friend invited a few families over for a cookout - somehow there were 12 kids (we couldn't get all the kids in the picture) and only 5 adults, we were super out numbered but all the kids were amazing. Hopefully the rest of summer will be just as fun as the first week!