Since August went by in a blur, I'm a little late with our summer re-cap. Oh well. Better late than never. I seriously had best summer of my life hanging out with the girls. Next year when they are 2 and 4 it will be even better! What we've been doing this summer:
- crossing things off our to do list. The only things we didn't do were my own personal to-dos: hang more pictures in the house and learn to use my camera. One of them (take a vacation with the girls) got scheduled for the fall, but I'm still counting it.
- going on little adventures around Kansas City. Each time the girls and I would get in the car we'd put our hands together and shout "Adventure girls!" Even now, if Olive hears the word adventure she puts her hand out. :) Some of the girls' favorite places- Deanna Rose Farmstead, zoo, Franklin Park, Big Biscuit Restaurant, Little Monkey Bizness.
- learning to share toys. I think I said "We don't take toys from friends" every day.
- meeting Thomas the Train and Sir Topham Hat. Who knew the Island of Sodor was located in Kansas?
- learning about transportation, dinosaurs, and bugs. Hannah chose the units for our little mini-school while Olive took her morning nap.
- wheezing and coughing. Olive is too young to be diagnosed with asthma, but starting in May she has been having monthly "wheezing episodes" which require inhalers. Sigh. My healthy girl is not so healthy. She doesn't let it get her down, though. So I shouldn't either.
- paddling down the river for days on end. Steve, Dan, and Joffroi completed the MR340 (that's 340 miles across the Missouri River)...with a little help from their ground crew of Granny, Papa, and Dan's mom.
- staying inside when the temperature was over 100...which happened quite often.
- eating lunch on the deck in June when it wasn't so hot.
- hiking up a mountain, riding a tandem, and doing our first glider ride. I hated leaving the girls for 6 days when we went to Maine with the Baileys, but it was nice to have some non-kid time.
- marching in the 4th of July parade in our neighborhood.
- not mowing for two months when the drought made all of our grass die.
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