Camp

Trevor had his first ever camp experience this year. It was 2 hours a day for 3 days. The first week was sports camp, he played soccer, baseball and basketball. He even earned camper of the day! He found out that he likes basketball so we will probably add that to our list of sports.

The second week was art camp. He had a great time. His friend Bailey went to camp too. They had a lot of fun and made a lot of cool things. Now I have some new crafty ideas to do with the kiddos.

Now it is time for swimming lessons and the start of soccer practices and soon school. Maybe the kids will start to go to sleep at a decent time since they will be worn out? Wishful thinking on my part :)

Slumber Party

What started out as a one night stay in the girls' room has turned into a change of rooms. Trevor had been waiting to spend the night in the girls room for a long time. Finally the last day of school came and he finally had his slumber party in their room. They have enjoyed it so much it has turned into a summer of slumber parties. At first we just brought Trev's mattress in their room, which eventually turned into bringing his bed in there. Now we have an extra play room :) 

We will probably have Trevor move back to his own room once school starts as they are even more talkative than usually with all 3 sharing a room! But for now they are enjoying having a summer of slumber parties together.

ABC's

Allie and Kara have been interested in learning their ABC's. I am sure a lot of it has to do with big brother teaching them the ABC song they did at school. At night you can hear Kara and Allie saying , "A", aaa Allie, "K" kkk Kara, "T", ttt Trevor, "M' mmmm Mommy, "D" dddd Daddy. It is so cute to listen to them, but they usually stay up so late talking about everything they have been learning throughout the day. They are so eager to learn, and Trevor is so eager to teach them. Trev has been going through the whole alphabet with them as well as all numbers. So after talking with Trevor he agreed we should teach them the first letters of their names and the sounds that letter makes as well as Trevor, mommy and daddy. I love that he wants to teach them everything, and they are eager to learn from him. Hopefully that will last a life time.

Science Day

The local library is hosting science camp on Wednesdays throughout the month of July. Best of all it is free! Since Trev is into all things science I have been taking him each week. So far I think his favorite thing has been painting/drawing with shaving cream. The staff had put a large board on the grass and filled it with shaving cream. Leave it to Trevor to start body surfing! He was covered from head to toe! Luckily he had decide to wear his Captain America costume so he at least had clean clothes underneath.

We have learned that if poke holes in a bag of water with pencils it will not leak out as long as those pencils stay in place. Another favorite of his, as he has been demonstrating this to a lot of people. We have planted sunflower seeds, set up dominoes and watched the chain reaction when one falls over, learned what objects sink or float, drawn with chalk and many more things.

It has been a great learning experience for him. Too bad it ends next week. We will have to look for more fun activities for him to do.

Party Time!!

This weekend was Trev's party. The weather started out a little wet then dried up nicely. At least the good thing about a summer party is even when it is raining it is still warm outside. Trevor was excited to see his school friends that he has not seen since school let out. It was a big Kindergarten reunion!

The kids were outside the whole time, even in the rain. They played with squirt guns, then we played a water game that we had learned at VBS a couple days prior to the party. There were 2 buckets at each end one end the buckets were filled with water and sponges, the other end the buckets were empty. There were two teams and the first team to fill the empty bucket with water by wringing out the water from the sponge won. They had so much fun we played a few rounds. I could not resist the temptation to spray them a few times with the hose :) The kids loved it and kept asking for more!

Later we had a pinata and presents. This year instead of a traditional cake or cupcakes we decided to do something a little different. We had the kids make ice cream sandwiches with cookies, ice cream, chocolate chips, sprinkles and crushed nuts. The kids had a lot of fun decorating their ice cream sandwiches and eating them too :) It was a huge success and very little messed involved! Since we did not have a cake we put the candle in the ice cream to sing Happy Birthday. I think this may be our new birthday tradition.

Happy Birthday Trevor, We love you!!

Kara, Kara, Kara

I think Kara wants to join big brother in the ER department. Last week all three were playing hide and seek. They were having so much fun laughing and giggling and running through the house. Kara decided to hide in our closet, which we have told her not to numerous times as it has a metal frame. I told her to come out and she started screaming. I thought she was upset I told her to come out. She wasn't coming out and once I got her out I noticed her foot covered in blood. She sliced her big toe right at the part where the skin and nail meet. She also sliced a little on the side too. It took awhile to get it to stop and the skin was not going back together. So I took her to urgent care. Because of the area it was at and her age we decided not to get stitches and put on steri strips. I thought they would last overnight as it was late in the evening. But of course they were off by morning. She will have a scar, but as it is her big toe it will not be that noticeable. Everyday she tells us to be careful of her blood. The toe is slowly healing. It looks like she will be keeping her toenail!


A few days after her toe she got her hand shut in the door where the hinges are. Her knuckle starting swelling right away. I thought she might have broken it. Since again this was late in the evening I gave her some tylenol and ice. She was able to open and close her hand but she said it hurt. By morning it was a little bruised. She said it hurt, but yet she was playing with that hand just fine. I am so glad that ther were no broken bones. This one she doesn't even talk about. Never a dull moment around here :)

A perfect match

Tonight at dinner, Allie and Kara were picking food off of each others plates like they always do. But tonight Allie decided she did  not like her broccoli. So Kara decided to eat it as Allie told her not to eat it all. So Kara ate the tops of the broccoli then gave the stems to Allie to eat. They were so happy with this arrangement! Soon Allie started feeding Kara, then once Kara ate the top she would take it from Allie and feed Allie the stem. These girls are just so cute!

Happy Birthday Trevor!!

The morning of Trevor's birthday I could hear the kids talking in their bedrooms. I couldn't believe I had slept in so long that they were all wide awake and talking. I looked at the clock in the bedroom and it said 4:45am! No wonder I still felt so tired... I went down the hall and I could here Trevor talking to his sisters in their bedroom. " Babies, what number am I going to be? It starts with an "S"."Three!" exclaim the babes. "No, I'm 6! You are going to be 3" Trev must have been a little excited for his birthday :)

Later that morning Trevor went to the Children's Museum and out to lunch with Daddy for his birthday. After Allie and Kara woke up from napping we opened presents. He got a video camera he has been asking for and has been taking videos of everything! Later we went to a local church where they had a lot of games and rides. Trevor's favorite was the rock climbing wall. It was his first time and he did awesome! Once he got to a point where I could not help him down I asked if he wanted down. Of course he said "No, I'm going to the top." He got pretty high and all of a sudden fear struck and he could not get down. The teenager in charge of the rock wall had to go up and coax him down. Once down, he wanted to do it again. We have some great pics, If I ever figure out how to get them onto the computer from my cell I will post pics.

We got home late for dinner as Trev was "stuck' on the rock wall for awhile. We made homeade chicken nuggets and fries, his favorite dinner. Then it was time for cake and ice cream. He was so tired that he fell asleep at 8pm! That has not happened in a long time...

We had a wonderful celebration with family. With his friends from school we will be letting the kids make their own ice cream sandwiches. Should be interesting :)

Fun 4th

It was a rare gorgeous day for the 4th of July. Our summers really do not start until after the 4th, but this year we had an early treat. We took the kids to a local parade and they had a lot of fun. There was so much candy thrown around I though I had the wrong month! Trevor came home with so much candy it was crazy. The girls even scored a couple of suckers. They were so excited! Allie and Kara loved seeing everything going by. They kept commentary through the whole parade :) Afterward we walked down to the duck dash. Of course on the way back both girls wanted to be carried and it was uphill! Scott got his workout in for the day.

We had a late dinner then went outside and got ready for fireworks. We let off a few in the backyard and then got ready to watch the neighbors. They had put on quite a show! Kara was not happy about the "pretties in the sky". So I went inside with her for awhile, then later Scott came in with her. Allie on the other hand could not get enough of the "pretties in the sky". Trevor was just over excited and hooting and hollering and running around crazy every time one went off. He was loving it!

While inside with Kara we made smores for everyone. She put on the chocolate and marshmallows. She loved watching them spin around in the microwave. We then took them outside for everyone to enjoy. That helped a little. But as soon as it really started getting loud we headed back in the house with her.

It was around 11:30 when things settled down and we were finally able to put the kids to bed. The next morning Allie kept asking to see more "pretties in the sky", while Kara said she did not want to see them :) Good thing Kara gets to wait a few months before people are letting them off again.