Tuesday, September 21, 2010

What a Summer!

Well, the boys and their mommy and daddy had a fabulous summer! We spent some time at the pool, we took a little "staycation", we hit the zoo,went to Greenfield Village, the beach in Lexington, headed up to Traverse City, and even hit a Polish festival in Hamtramck!

Grant and Gavin both took swimming lessons over the summer, and Grant has moved on to Fish 3 and Gavin in going into Fish 2! We were very proud of the way their swimming has taken off! They both love to swim and go under water! We're planning on continuing their swimming lessons through the winter months...and we'll hope that they go down the slide next summer!

Gavin continued going to preschool all summer because we thought it might be a bit easier on mommy, but we sure did miss him when he was gone!

Grant has started the 2nd grade, and just writing that makes me get a little teary eyed! I cannot believe that he is already a 2nd grader! Where does the time go? But, so far he likes his teacher and doesn't mind getting up early for school.

Gavin is officially in his final preschool year, and he is doing great! He's already mastered his numbers and colors. He can spell his first and last name, and he is even drawing a bit! He is learning Spanish and so far knows "Hola" and "Adios". He isn't too excited to do homework, but ... we're working on that too. He's excited to graduate in the Spring and start Kindergarten in the Fall. We are working on tying his shoes. It's ..... going. We'll get there. But, anyone that knows Gavin, knows that he doesn't have the greatest attention span! :)

Garrett has also started going to day care two days a week with Gavin. He enjoys playing in the Treehouse (the gym day care), so we thought that giving him the opportunity to play with kids his own age would be good for him. It's also giving mommy time to do her "thing" around the house so when I have the two boys (three when Grant's home from school), we can PLAY and have a good time. We may even take some "field trips"!

I'm going to post a few pictures of the boys over the summer ... hopefully I can get them all in ...

Well, they won't let me put enough pictures in here ... I guess I'll have to do an update for each of our fun filled trips! I'm hoping that tomorrow afternoon will give me some time for that ... until then .....