Other Fun Summer Adventures

We were supposed to go on two camping trips these last couple weeks but we had to cancel for a couple of reasons.  Im really bummed by this because we all love to go camping but what do you do.  Anyways life hasn't been boring!

Alyssa has been taking swimming lessons.  She goes twice a week at our gym and absolutely loves it.  She is a little timid which is normal when she starts something new.  I can see a improvement in her and even the teacher has said so.  She still isn't thrilled with putting her face in the water but at the same time wants to so badly.  We are working on it in the bath tub.  When she is willing to take a bath.  She now likes showers because "big girls take showers." Me sighing....She wants to grow up so quickly and I love listening to her on the playground with other kids.   Back to the swim lessons though.  She is signed up for the next session and is really excited because one of her besties is in the class.  So that should be interesting to see her progression with that.  I say that because I don't think she likes seeing anyone do something that she can't especially a friend if that makes sense.

We have also been doing a lot of bike riding.  Both kids love going out on their bikes and I couldn't be more thrilled.  Our neighborhood isn't the best because you are either going up hill which can be a little hard or going down.  They love going down!  Anyways we are very fortunate that we live in an area where we can take them to a lot of places to learn and use them.

Since having two kids and teaching them to do stuff it's been interesting how we have to approach stuff differently with each.  Alyssa needs a little TLC at times with new stuff while Knox just jumps in and doesn't really give it much thought.

Cory actually had a day off and we needed to take his car in to get some stuff done to it and were killing some time so we decided to take the ferry over to Whidbey Island.  It was a fun little thing to do with the kids and they were excited.  It was also my first ferry ride.  I kind of laugh about that since I grew up in Washington and have lived in this area for so long.  It's such a part of life up here but I guess if there is no reason to do it, why would I?

Afterwards we went out to lunch for beer and pizza.  The kids are so much fun and easy to take places to now.  They always have been but now we aren't lugging around all this crap!

As always we have lots of fun stuff coming up!