Hot Summer Days

 Adrian

We were back to our summer normal this week, but I've recently decided that Adrian is determined to never be predictable. One day he will happily go to sleep right after a snack and sleep for the first 4 hours of the night but other nights it takes an hour to put him to sleep and he only sleeps for 2 hours. It is never the same two days in a row, and he doesn't like naps in his own room still, but he does get a lot of naps in the car seat because we are often out of the house at his nap times. When the girls go to school, I hope he will get better and I can have  more time to do the chores, working out, and other things around the house. I don't know why I give myself so many projects, but I have a running list of things that will eventually happen. The girls got some balloons from the park and we tried to get Adrian to play with them by kicking!

Swimming

We had a lunch and pool party with the ward relief society this week on Monday and the girls had so much fun! Claire now wants these cute diving gems for her birthday since I told her the kayak was too expensive and we couldn't use it in the pools we go to. There were extra free swim classes that the girls were able to go to this week so we went to the pool 3 times this week and they both leveled from beginners to intermediate. They were very proud of themselves and got a little toy as a prize, and Claire keeps saying, "I can wait to be a seahorse!" Its the naming system the swim school uses, they used to be starfish as beginners but now they get to be seahorses. I want to take them swimming as a family with Chris to see how much they can actually do. Shay put on her whale tattoo right on her face and its been there all week so maybe it helped her get better at swimming!

More fun

Claire goes to our calendar each day and turns the page to August to see when her birthday is because she is so excited. She tries to count down the days, but if I've forgotten to X out the current days she has too many, we talked about what she wants for a party and she wants to invite her whole school class! Shay had her date with Daddy this week and they rode the quad to that park with a picnic and sat under a tree to eat and talk. Luckily Chris took a picture because I didn't get a picture of our movie and dinner date at home with Claire, Adrian, and myself. Since we took last week off of doing homework, this week was hard to finally get them to do it, but eventually they got tired of not being able to watch shows and Claire spend Friday and Saturday doing all week's worth of homework. Now let me explain what the girls were doing...Shay wanted to be a mermaid and Claire was keeping her from the water so she would stay and play with her.