Last time I was at Taylor’s I spent $6 on a multi-spray sprinkler head for the kids to play with. Unfortunately, all of the settings except what Brooke calls ‘the baby one’ frighten Alex. The kids still had fun running around with it on the ‘baby’ setting. It was a good way to spend a hot day at home.
We were very excited to check out Harborfest this year (or as I was calling it for the kids ‘the boat festival!’) We traveled up to Norfolk and as we arrived saw the start of the Junkanoo parade. Then we sampled 757’s finest food trucks and ate in the grass by the water. When we started to look at the boats we caught a hydroboard performance complete with loop-de-loops. I kept explaining the hydro forces and propulsion to Brooke but she had a hard time understanding that water could force a person up, even when I used propulsion in air as an example (as it is in one of her books about aircrafts) she kept asking ‘how the water is keeping him up?’ We found a completely free arcade and did some family skeeball. Then while AJ took Alex to get changed I looked up and saw real mermaids. Brooke and I rushed over so she could see them, have per picture taken, and get a real mermaid scale. There were lawn hammocks and games, including mini golf. After looking at the tall ships, the kids got a carousel ride. Water report: Good day to be at Norfolk harbor.
Yesterday evening we received the last component of Brooke’s new big girl bed that we ordered after Alex transferred into his toddler bed. I stayed up late last night putting together the bed frame by myself to surprise her with today. I had to finish assembling it in her room during her quiet time and Alex’s nap today. After I was done she was so excited to see and play on her new bed. Alex accidentally fell out of his toddler bed during nap an hour early and ended up playing with us in her bed too after refusing to go back to sleep. They had fun pretending to sleep in it and playing hide and seek. She said she loves her new bed.
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.
