Derek was excited about me painting his room last night. Since Nate and the older kids are at the Johnsons' for Christie's homecoming I let him stay up and keep me company. He talked and talked until about 10:15 when he finally layed down on the floor and mid sentence fell asleep.
We've had lots of fun while the rest of the family has been gone. Derek didn't not want them to go. "Our family should go on trips together." I agreed with him, but we don't have the transportation. When it was dinner time he didn't want to eat without everyone else. He's a tender guy. But other then that he's been okay. We have read a ton of books, made a tent in the toy room, a pretend fire, and roasted marshmallows. Then I cut up hot dogs for dinner and let them use their roasting sticks (bamboo skewers) to dip the pieces into ketchup and mustard.
All the kids have had swimming lessons the past week. Derek would rather not, but has stuck it out. On the second day Asher did a bob and so Derek had to follow. Way to go! Also, at lunch afterwards, Asher ate his broccoli, so Derek did too! On Friday they went off the diving board. (One guard threw them in and another caught them.) I was a bit worried about that, but after he did it he screamed, "that was fun!" Merian, on the other hand kept moving to the back of the line and avoided getting her head under water. How is she going to be baptized? I think Derek's main problem is that the kid has not meat on those bones and he spends the whole time shivering.
Asher, Eliza, Merian, Cecily, Derek
Kenna, Emma, Callie Emma and Kenna
Uncle Mike and Norah
I've wanted to write down things we usually do during the summer because this summer I forgot and we missed the Reptile Man.
* Sign up for the library summer reading program. This gives us coupons so we can go roller skating and out to dinner sometime later in the year.
* Library programs such as the Reptile Man and Recess Monkey.
*Free summer movies
*swimming and tennis lessons
*splash park by the baseball field
*Howard Amon Park to play in the sand and go swimmin in the little round pool. (I remember going there when I was little when he came up here from Utah for a family reunion.)
*I want to try the "free" bowling.
*We are finally starting Cousin Camp this year
*Last year we picked blueberries. That was fun, expensive, but fun.
*I know there is more. See I'm forgeting and we do these things every year. Too little sleep. I'll add more as I think of them.
