Summer Activities

This summer has been a lot of fun so far.  Each of the kids chose to be involved in a couple different activities.  Jaxton wanted to go Science Central, a hands on children's science museum.  He goes every Thursday for a whole day of themed fun.  Some of the themes have been Space, Sound & Light waves, and Dinosaurs & Fossils.  He has really enjoyed these camp Thursdays and has come home with all sorts of new facts he is eager to share.  

Cooper loved doing gymnastics in Utah with his cousins so much that he chose to sign up for a summer boys gymnastics class.  They do all sorts of neat boy gymnastics activities like learning to walk on and swing on the parallel bars, tricks on the swinging rings, and flips and jumps on the giant trampoline.  He also enjoys trying to master handstands and hand walking.  Our living room has become a gymnastics floor.  

Kaylee took a free gymnastics class with her friend Carter in the spring and she loved it.  So she is taking a summer session for 3 year olds and she just loves every minute of it.  She is not shy or hesitant at all; she just goes out there and follows her teachers instructions and waves to me from afar.  And she's adorable in her cute gymnastics outfit!

Jaxton and Cooper also have taken up piano lessons.  They are able to read now, which makes a world of difference in how much quicker they can learn.  They are both learning fast and feeling confident when they can play familiar songs by themselves.  They are even able to hear and recognize notes and figure out familiar tunes by listening to the sounds.  Cooper wants to stick with piano and will take lessons at school this coming year.  Jaxton hopes to learn guitar, so he is getting some piano background and will take guitar lessons at school this coming year.

Dawson gets to watch all his older siblings do all these fun things and hang out with me.  I wonder what his interests will be as he gets older...

Fun at Science Central

The sideways house

 The Science Central playground

 M&M's science experiment:  Watching the letter M come off the candy and float in the water.

 The kids spent lots of days and overnights at Grandma and Grandpas!

Simplx was busy too.  Cooper helped out at the Hispanic Festival in Fort Wayne.

 Our trip to the fair downtown Fort Wayne

 Kaylee & Cooper's Gymnastics

Uncle Nick & Aunt Carissa came to Indiana to visit from Arizona.  They brought 2 year old Kipton and little Aria.  We all had a lot of fun spending time with their family!

The Jim Gill Concert at the Downtown Library.  We love Jim Gill and it was awesome to see him in real life!! He is just as goofy as he sounds in his songs!