10 DAYS OF FUN

Cousins visit. Lots of swimming, playing outside, shopping, ice cream, more swimming, zoo, staying up late, skating, melt downs, tons of popsicles, and tons of fun. I'm tired.

 

Violet's favorite ice cream place, Yogurtini. It's not really about the ice cream. It's about all the treats she can add to the ice cream. Usually there is more gummi worms, m&m's, chocolate chips, etc. than ice cream.

Make a wish.

Took him forever to make his wish. 

 

Lunch at IKEA.

IKEA has a play area where you can drop your kids off and then go shop. This was apparently the highlight of the trip because Violet asked to go back to IKEA.

First corn on the cob.

Too hot outside so we played games inside.

More ice cream.  

 

Trip to the zoo. Tiger let out a loud roar. You can see Violet jump in the pic.

Monkeys.

4th OF JULY FUN

Originally the 4th was going to be only two families hanging due to people being out of town or busy. But in the end a few more families made it back in time to hang out, grill and watch the fireworks.

 

 

Highchair in the garage. :)

 

 

 

Neighborhood fireworks.

 

 

AROUND THE WORLD IN THREE DAYS

This years GS day camp theme.

Eiffel tower paintings.

 

Pool time.

 

The girls first time participating in a flag ceremony. I volunteered our girls for the days closing ceremony.

 

We earned the coveted Golden Trashcan for doing a great job of picking up trash everywhere we went.

 

Day two started out with our Adventure activity, Rock Climbing wall.

 

 

Violet made it to the top! Twice!!

 

Morning flag ceremony of day three.

 

Snuck off for a little nature walk.

Some Chinese calligraphy.

 

Cheese!

FIRST KC ZOO TRIP

We decided to go to the zoo this morning because the weather was so nice.  Gryphin hadn't been to the zoo yet. He's finally getting interested in animals and making animal noises so timing was great.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Took a picnic lunch and ate in the shade.

 

ANNIE

 

Friday night Violet and I headed to Starlight Theater to Annie. It was Girl Scout night so we got a good deal on tickets plus Violet got a patch. We got there early enough that we got to take a 20 minute backstage tour.

It was a little warm in the sun. But once the sun went down it was actually pretty nice.

CLEANING

Gryphin's favorite thing to do right now is cleaning. Give him a rag and he likes to wipe everything down. He has a little broom too, likes to push it around on the floor and torment the dogs. Then I have to take it away and a melt down ensues.

 

 

Hard work deserves a popsicle.