Boating

John and Julie Warehime came up to the lake. Lynn, Chase and Alex even came up for the day.

Caleb is such a happy little boy. He was coated in layers of food and sand. He ate a couple cookies covered in sand and was totally OK with it. Not much bothers that kiddo.

Sean, Hailey and Alex.

Sean had fun at the lake but really wanted to be at the pool.

John and Julie are having another baby in November.

The weather was perfect but the lake did get real choppy as the afternoon wore on.

Caleb crawled under a boat just where we couldn't get to him. He thought he was so clever!

"I want to go to the pool!"

Chase and Alex.

Pow Wow

For father's day we drove to Midway (Heber) for a Pow Wow, advertised to be the largest Pow Wow in the nation. It was fun, Sean enjoyed it. There was a dancing competition for the Native Americans. In between competitions the audience was invited to dance in the circle. They had traditional drummers and singers. There was a little boy sitting on his grandfather's lap imitating his grandfather's singing. It was a cute picture of traditions passed through the generations. One of the dancers had Down Syndrome. It was nice to see her included with a typical group of dancers. No special accommodations made.

Alika was game for dancing in the circle, Sean not so much. 

Summer Camps and end of soccer season

 Soccer ended for the season on Saturday. Sean had a great game last week. He scored five goals (or four goals and one assist, I'm not really sure) He would wait just outside the pack and when he saw the ball he'd go for it and just take it down the field. He was very pleased with himself. It was fun to watch.

A random Khloe Bow picture.

Sean had two camps last week. Drama in the morning and inventors in the afternoon. He loved inventors camp. Here he put together a sled for his stuffed bear.

They put together circuit boards which he has gotten very good at. I'd bought a circuit board for him a couple of years ago but he was way to young for it. He was excited when he found out we had one at home.

Waiting in the audience for his acting performance. Sean decided acting is boring. There is way too much time standing around waiting. I told him they had to decide where people were going to stand and stuff he said "well they should have figured all that out before we got there."

 They did a play called "Shoe Bop." Sean had four lines and did great. One of his lines included the word antonym. Pretty big word for a six year old. He enjoyed the songs.

After the play we went across the street to Dairy Queen for lunch.

More sister time

I took Sean for his yearly pulmonology appointment yesterday and it was not our regular doctor. (I liked this on more.) He said "Sean you have a tan already." He gets dark fast. I told the doctor he'd been outside a lot but it was mostly his ethnicity.

Since he's been swimming this summer Sean has become very confident and swims across the pool. He doesn't want to wear a life vest in the pool. 

We went to a park in North Salt Lake. It was a nice park but it was full of really young kids. It made me kind of sad that the kids are so big now that they are too old for parks full of little kids.

We left the NSL park and went to Smoot park so the kids could play in the stream. The water was cold!!!

Kylie and Sean got in the water but Brie wasn't having it.

So grown up.

I took them back to the pool at 9:30 am so they could swim a couple of hours before I took them home. It's 1 hundred mile trip from our house to theirs. They had such a great time though. 

Sister time

I'm not working this week so I asked Lanette if the girls could come play. They are out of school as well. Brie starts summer school on Thursday so it was the perfect opportunity. I met them in Sandy after work on Sunday. I didn't tell Sean they were coming as it was a spur of the moment arrangement. When we got home Sean was asleep. Kylie and Brie climbed on his bed and started to tickle him. He woke up confused when he saw them and then started beaming he was so happy. We went to dinner at Boba world in Woods Cross. The kids were wired so we ate outside on the patio. Good choice!

We went to Cherry Hill for six hours. That's a lot of time in the sun. We all have a little sunburn despite sunscreen. My legs and scalp are burned. Sean and Kylie wore swim shirts which helped.

I brought a cooler of food so they snacked all day.

Their favorite thing was the lazy river. They spent hours riding around in tubes. They tried to go down the tube slide but all of them got scared and the life guard had to lift them over the wall to me. She about dropped Brie when she tried to lift her. Brie is one solid little girl. She was a solid little baby!

This is what kids look like after six hours at a water park. They ate dinner, rode bikes for a little while and then laid down to watch the Lego movie. This is what I found at 8 p.m.

The last week of kindergarten

The last week of school didn't involve actual learning. They had field day on Thursday and Friday they met their first grade teachers.

They are mixing up the two Chinese groups next year. Samantha and Sean are in the red class and Jacob is in the blue next year.

After soccer on Saturday we had breakfast with Samantha and her grandmother then the kids went swimming. They look like min adults in this picture.