Our Summer Fun!

Once again, I’m creating our summer fun list. A LOT, if not all, of these are repeats from previous years, but it’s how we spend our summers! Our lists from 2008 & 2009.

1. Go to the movies
2. Go to a water park (already have 2 trips planned!)
3. Go to a museum
4. Have an ice cream sundae night
5. Pick berries @ Duck Creek
6. Make fresh lemonade and strawberry lemonade (with fresh fruit)
7. Get sno-cones
8. Run through the sprinklers
9. Watch fireworks
10. Have a root beer/coke float night
11. Have a tea party
12. Visit a farmer's market
13. Swim! Lots and lots of swimming!
14. Watch a movie on the lawn by the pool (put on by our HOA)
15. Jump on the trampoline with the sprinkler on
16. Get frozen yogurt 
17. Make milkshakes
18. Go bowling
19. Build blanket forts on rainy days
20. Go to the park
21. Wash the cars with daddy
22. Make s’mores
23. Run in the fountains
24. Visit Rita's Ice
25. Take a ride on the TRE
26. Play in the rain on a rainy day (if no thunder/lightning)
27. Make popsicles
28. Make homemade ice cream sandwiches
29. Go to the library
30. Have a pillow fight
31. Have an indoor picnic 
32. Have play dates with friends
33. Blow bubbles
34. Pick peaches @ Red River
35. Watch fireworks at Lake Grapevine
36. Pick something each day (that the kids are home) from The Busy Book to do for fun (have both The Children’s Busy Book and The Preschooler’s Busy Book)

1st grade awards

Kaylin received 3 awards at her school’s end of year awards ceremony. Music Achievement, 100 book club, and Athletic Achievement.

So proud of sissy!

Kaylin receiving 2 of her awards. The 3rd was at a different ceremony, and I have yet to download those pictures off the camera.

Jonathan’s Mother’s Day Out end of year program

Jonathan’s Mother’s Day Out program has come to an end for this school year. They always do an end of the year program, where the 4/5 year olds that are moving on to Kindergarten graduate, all of the kids sing, and we get a book full of their work & pictures throughout the year (my favorite part!) You might remember when Kaylin graduated.

Cheese!

But I wanna go sit with Mimi!

1st grade music performance & zoo field trip

The 1st graders at Kaylin’s school put on a music performance…back in April. One of the songs they sang was called Lucy Locket Lost Her Pocket, and Kaylin was “Lucy” for the purpose of the song. Basically, she skipped across the stage with a coin purse, dropped it on the ground, another girl came behind her and “found” it and gave it back to her. I don’t know that it was even 2 minutes long, and the picture of her skipping across the stage is a blur of red. So, here is a picture I do have, where you can actually see Kaylin. She’s the one in the red shirt, on the left hand side.

And a few weeks later, the 1st graders took their field trip. This year, it was to the Fort Worth Zoo, and I was one of the parent volunteers.

This trip was a lot more fun than our normal trips to the zoo, as they had an educational presentation before we walked around the zoo.

A baby alligator – they explained the differences between alligators and crocodiles, what they eat, etc. With each animal that was brought out a child was selected from the group and they got to sit behind that curtain and ask yes or no questions to try and guess the animal.

An Opossum. We were told that there are possums and Opossums, the differences and that possums live in Australia, etc.

Kaylin in front of the elephants.