Summer Fun

James and Rett doing their 20 minutes of reading from their summer daily checklist:

Checking out the library "universe of stories" summer reading kick-off. All of the activities are outer space themed this year.

One of James's summer checklist items this year is to do a reading lesson with Rett. It was so sweet to hear him try to help Rett read this book. He would try to give him clues to what the words were, like "its the thing that is red and is on the tree...". I had to keep reminding him to help Rett sound the words out :)

Our 26 clearance chickens are getting so big! So far none of them have started crowing, so we are starting to think that they were mislabeled and are all girls!

I sent Anthony to the store to get the ingredients for lasagna. One of the ingredients was turkey sausage (to mix with ground beef). This is the kind of sausage he came home with!! So we ended up with hot-dog lasagna!

James and Rett taking a selfie at a library magic show:

James is loving playing basketball at the YMCA this summer! I was nervous for him since he has never played before and most of the kids are much bigger and more experienced than him, but he has done great! His coach is so good at actually teaching them the rules and the different skills and James is picking things up really quickly. He is the smallest and youngest on the team, but the other kids are really nice and kind of treat him like the mascot. He has two practices and a game every week, so Mondays, Wednesdays, and Friday evenings are spoken for.

Since James's cub scout pack doesn't meet over the summer, James has started going to the church pack. They meet in separate dens for the first hour and then come together to play games for the last 30 minutes. It has been fun, but I'm really glad we don't have to do this during the school year. Staying out until 9pm at night is just too late!

Trip to chuckecheese for a birthday party. Man I hate this place.

Some friends from school invited us to play at their neighborhood pool. The kids had a blast!!

More basketball practice:

A thunderstorm knocked our power out before basketball practice. I checked the status on my phone before going home and since it was still out, we decided to go to a restaurant for dinner. Rett was so excited about this change in plan, he still talks about the wonderful time the power went out and we went to a restaurant.

Baymax's life is just so exhausting!

This. 100%.

James and Rett invented a pikachu game where one of them is a pet pikachu and has to snuggle to recharge. Sooooo rare to see them being sweet together and not trying to hurt each other.

James doing a basketball drill:

The boys had their 6 month dental cleaning and check-up. They both love going and think it is the most fun ever! It helps that they get to pick out from a treasure box AND the dentist does magic tricks for them afterwards.

After the dentist, we decided to go to the bouncy house place close to our house. The dentist office does a contest that you enter by posting pictures on facebook with their beach ball, so we did it right away.

Our female snake had been looking bloated lately, so we thought she might be pregnant. Sure enough, we spotted a large white thing in the cage and discovered that she had laid 5 eggs! We took them out of the cage and brought them to our friend who breeds snakes so that he can incubate them. So far two of them look healthy and should hatch in two months.

After we took the eggs out, this is what the snakes were doing. They looked so happy with themselves!

I bought a summer pass for the boys to the local trampoline park. I was worried that I wouldn't use them enough to justify the cost, but the first time we went the boys jumped for four hours! A friend of mine got the pass for her kids too, so she met us there and we got to talk while the boys jumped. So much fun, I can't wait to go back!