Today we put both kids into summer school.  They will both attend in the fall, Brooke returning and Alex for his first time at school.  The school had 5 weeks in June that they offered for summer school and we decided to send them one day a week when AJ was off so we could have a date.  It was Alex’s first time and he walked right in and according to his teacher ‘had the best first day one could ask for’.  He was most excited to wear his Koala backpack which he got from his Great Uncle Eddy sent from Australia when he was 9 months old.  We had saved in his closet until he was ready for school. On our morning date we got to go kayaking on our local waterways and have a delicious lunch out before picking both happy kids up at the end of their day at summer school.

I took the kids to the beach this morning to have fun and run around in the sand.  We had a good time filling buckets with water and then either them throwing the water on themselves, each other, or having me throw water on them.  I grabbed a few pictures of them before I put my phone away to be hypervigilant mommy since I was the only adult with two young kiddos near the water.  Alex either completely ignores me when I ask him to smile or gives me this face when I say ‘cheese’, hahaha.