Hello! Yes, we're still here, but I'm behind two days in my posting. Partly because I was busy, and partly because I was so busy that I forgot to take photos! Oh, I have a few, but they do not do justice to the weekend.
Friday evening we went to our local pool for family night (kids have to be accompanied by a parent), but I didn't take any pictures, or even bring my camera or phone along, because I knew I'd be wet a majority of the time. We probably need a 3rd parent just to serve as photojournalist (oh, and cook, maid, and
laundress launderer laundry-doing person). Saturday morning, Dan left for Pittsburgh with his good friend, Joe, to watch the Indians play the Pirates and spend the night with some of Joe's family, so I handled the baseball coordination (or lack thereof). Greyson had a game at 9 at the high school, Reece had t-ball pictures at 11 at the field up the street from us, and then Reece had a game at 12 at the library field. Plus, our neighborhood was having its annual garage sales and I needed to go to the farmer's market. SO, Reece and I dropped off Greyson at 8:45, where I was thrilled to discover he was playing his best friend's team and I asked his friend's mom if she could bring Greyson home if I couldn't get back in time. Then, we went to the farmer's market, got what we needed, drove home to put it in the fridge, stopped at one of the garage sales to find some books for Reece to read while we watched part of Greyson's game, went back to G's game to watch for about 45 minutes, drove back near home for pictures, stopped at another garage sale where I bought a bike trailer for Reece to ride in so we can go on longer bike rides, coordinated with G's friend's mom for him to go to their house after the game and eat lunch, drove to Reece's game to sit in the HOT sun for an hour and convince Reece to keep playing after each inning was done (Mom, is the game over YET??), then picked Greyson up and headed home to feed Reece and me and get things ready for my nephews to come over to stay the night. OK, everyone can take a breath now.
I must say here that I volunteered to have my nephews over, because I knew (and this proved to be true) that it would actually make my life easier. The boys are so much more active and creative when they are together than when they are apart (at least my boys are). Our town was also having a summer solstice festival just up the street from us, so I planned for us to walk up there to have dinner and do some activities. After I convinced the boys that it wasn't too far to walk, it all went very smoothly, and they had hot dogs and egg rolls and ice cream and got balloon animals, made swirly-colored paper, and watched a magician and a magic show.
So now, the few photos I did take from the weekend. I wish I had taken some video of at least one of the three squirt gun fights they had in the course of 24 hours, because they clearly had a blast. I'm sure there will be a next time.
Reece chose a bee, and Greyson's is a "cartoon wand".
Both Elliott and Isaac chose snakes. Isaac thought to store his around his neck totally on his own.
A few other things they did when they weren't shooting water at each other.
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