End of Summer Fun

The summer is winding down and school will be starting next week. Here are just a quick few snapshots of what we have been up to lately....

We went to our first Springfield Sliders baseball game in early August. We went with friends from Joe's work. For the majority of the game, the kids were stalking "Speedy", the Sliders' mascot. Anytime he would approach, the kids would get so excited they could not contain themselves! Here is a picture of Ethan (kind of), Brady, Olivia, and Ali with Speedy. They also received Speedy bobbleheads, and it has since become a favorite toy.


Olivia, Ali, Brady, and Ethan watching the game.

Mmmmm...fresh peaches from the Farmer's Market. Best enjoyed outside so the juice can drip everywhere!

Olivia swimming in grandma and grandpa's pool. She was not brave enough to jump off of the diving board this year, but she has greatly improved with her swimming this summer (thanks to twice a week lessons for 2 months!). She will put her head under water, can jump into the deep end and swim to the shallow end, can tread water, and has begun to learn several different strokes like the back stroke, breast stroke, and freestyle.

Ethan and grandpa playing basketball in the pool. Ethan is beyond obsessed with any type of a ball. The first thing he talks about and the last thing he says at night is in reference to sports. Baseball, basketball, hockey, football, soccer, it doesn't matter. If it is a sport, he wants to play it all of the time! He frequently says "nice warm day to play (insert sport here) outside!".

Yesterday Springfield received 1 inch of rain in under 30 minutes, making for quite a bit of flooding. We took full advantage of the puddles!

Our soon to be kindergarten student. A picture of innocence...wearing a princess crown and with a princess umbrella, stomping in puddles with Hello Kitty rainboots, and getting wet and muddy and not caring about it.

The gutter/drain fascination lasted for about 20 minutes.

Sitting in the middle of the flowing water racing blades of grass over the waterfall and into the drain. They were loving it!