Winding Down

Summer is winding down here for us. The girls go to school on Friday! As a mommy, I tend to feel bad that we haven't "done enough," so I am trying to think about all that we have done.

There has been a lot of bike riding. Now all 3 kids have bikes, and they love to go up and down the sidewalk in front of our house.

This week, Annah learned how to ride her bike without the training wheels!!!! She had tried with Mommy and Daddy's help one evening a couple weeks ago, and yesterday decided to try on her own in the grass. Today, she got on the sidewalk and went back and forth until she had it! We are proud of her for doing it on her own.


Sylvia actually asked to have her training wheels off a few weeks ago. She is not comfortable trying on her own, but is eager to have one of us help her!


So, other than ride bikes, we have...

...spent hours playing in the "tree house" (under the pine trees in our sideyard).
...spent hours swinging on the new swingset in the backyard.
...made 5 trips to Indiana and back, including LOTS of adventures there!
...all 3 kids gone to the dentist, and doctor.
...gone to State Farm Park.
...played at the sprinkler parks.
...attended VBS in Arrowsmith.
...had lots of fun with our LifeGroup every Monday night.
...watched lots of movies we had never seen.

Speaking of movies we'd never seen... I would have to say, in our house, the "official" movie of the summer has definitely been Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed! I picked it up in the $5 bin at Wal-Mart at the beginning of the summer, and the kids have absolutely loved it! I'm sure they've probably watched it more than 10 times, and loaned it to friends, watched it with every friend that came over. It is pretty cute, and they now quote their favorite lines from it all the time. They love Scooby!