Summer time...

I would love to say that we are having an incredibly lazy relaxing summer but truth be told it seems just as busy as any other time. The kids have been out of school for 4 weeks now and we have had lots going on. First off John spent a week in China, (he has the funniest stories that I will post later). After China Joe/Pop came and visited us for a few days and we had lots of fun visiting with him and he got to meet Baby Emily. Then my college roommates and I were all able to get together for a visit. It is always fun to see them and have our kids play together. I only wished we all lived closer!




Annie started horseback riding lessons this week! She has been wanting to do this for a while now and she just loves them. Her teacher said Annie is very comfortable doing this, I will admit it scares me a little. I was sitting there watching her at one point and thought to myself, I am going to have to be prepared to watch my daughter fall off a horse if she really is interested in this! So far she has only slipped off the saddle once and she was going so slow she just hung onto the reins and had her foot in the stir up hanging to the side of the horse!







Audrey just finished a week of swim lessons and to my utter amazement after 2 days I look over and she had swam across the pool by herself! She is killing me lately with the funny things she says. Earlier this week she got mad at me and with all the attitude of a 13 year old looked at me and said "Thanks a lot Mom". She is our resident clown most days, and she often doesn't realize how funny & cute she is. she told me recently that Daddy stole her heart and is her boyfriend.




Charlie is doing Summer rec again and he loves his independence of getting to ride his bike to the park each morning. He does all sorts of activities at the park each day and he gets up and is ready to go a good hour before it starts. I do know that his favorite part of the day is getting to play dodge ball. He has also become our expert fisherman. He loves to fish!!! He wanted to get John a new tackle box for fathers day. When I asked him why, his response was so I can have the other one for myself. Each Wednesday we have lake day with a bunch of friends and he always takes his pole and heads to the dock to fish!







Emily is still her sweet little self. She is rolling over and sitting by herself in the little frog stance babies start out doing. Before we know she is going to be mobile. She has starting eating baby food She Squeals horribly if I don't spoon it in fast enough!!! She sure loves food - when I put her down for her nap a little while ago I had been nursing her and she fell asleep drooling milk looking like she was a gluttonous little thing in a milk coma!