Summer Days

Warm days in Vermont go by quickly and end all-too-soon, so we soak up every minute we can. In just the past 2 weeks of summer, we have already done so much. The kids ask every night, "What are we going to do tomorrow?" Days at home are rare, but I, for one, appreciate them. Here's a few things we've been up to, in no particular order:


Andrew is still doing his taekwando once a week, and he loves it. There was a special event in town a few weeks ago & Andrew's teacher invited any students who wanted to come and break a board. He did it well and felt so good about himself! (I'm pretty sure his teacher bent it a little to help it along, but don't tell him that.)

Jacob is sitting up well on his own now and can sit in the high chair at restaurants. He even enjoys a French fry here or there. He also enjoys eating anything he can find on the floor at home. 

When I'm cooking, the two babies are usually right underfoot. Jacob has discovered the joy of Tupperware & cooking spoons. Abi loves to sit right on the island counter where I'm working and help me stir or pour. Or tell me that she wants to use a spaghetti noodle to roast marshmallows, like this picture.

Abi has always been my amazing sleeper. She will often sleep in til 8am, then crash & burn about 1pm, sometimes earlier. If I don't wake her up from her nap, she'll sleep sometimes 2 or 3 hours! (Which makes it hard for her to get to sleep at night, of course. She is a night owl.) She sometimes willingly puts herself to bed. She gets pretty sassy if she doesn't get in her nap. And she rarely likes her picture taken.

Night time can be long when Daddy has a meeting. We have to eat dinner early many nights, so there's still several hours before bedtime.  Occasionally we'll play games, or the kids will go back outside to enjoy the long daylight. We love the sunsets at our house.

Leah and Andrew got to go see a movie in the theater. I don't think it was their first, but they don't really remember ever going. They saw Finding Dory with their Daddy and loved it!

And the other day it was so windy out we decided to fly a kite. We got that kite WAY WAY up high. It was hard to even hold it down! Abi loves her little brother and was holding his hand. He just loves the grass and could care less about kites and such.

Another thing we have enjoyed every summer is the library's Summer Reading Program. We actually go to 2 different libraries, both which offer story times, crafts, activities, and prizes for reading certain amounts of books. I love that the kids get excited about reading so they can put stickers on their charts. We've probably already read about 40 books so far.

Summer's only half over and who knows what else we'll find to get ourselves into?!