It is 4 days into summer and we already need new ideas.
Allie and I finished Anne of Green Gables. It was my first experience and the beginning of that book is just incredible to get a picture of the expressiveness of a young girl.
Jacob and Allie fished for “minnows” in Minnehaha Creek with a net.
Big Nate is a big hit for all the kids and for mom.
Graphic novels of Martin Luther and Gandhi and Johnny Cash and Donald Trump and Alexander Hamilton.
Ryan riding his bike with his friend to go swimming in the lake.
Allie desperate to go swimming.
Jacob doing World War II with army figures in the basement.
Lots of deliberation about the treehouse. We are leaning against it at the moment.
Lots of baseball / softball and soccer. Allie scored last night. Being the head coach for the third and fourth grade baseball team takes a lot of my time. And I am the third coach for Ryan’s baseball team. And I’m also the third coach for Ryan soccer team. And I’m also helping out a little bit with Allie’s softball team — 4th or 5th coach there.
Kites on the last day of school for 4th grade. We had five going from 7 kites we bought for $1 at the Dollar Tree.
Ryan wanting to build a raft to go down the creek because tubing is old hat.
Allie is doing puzzles and enjoyed kayaking at the beach at the lake a friend. Jacob went tubing with a friend and Ryan went rafting with the youth group.
Kids are also begging for a campfire and s’mores.
Kids watch Jumanji with friends. They may also watch later movies that are new at Redbox: A Wrinkle in Time and Early Man. I think we have missed the new Han Solo movie at the theater: Solo.
Bowling? Science Museum? Zoo?
We need to paint the downstairs bathroom.
We went to three Minnesota Twins games for free. We go to Dollar Tree on the way there and let each kid pick two things to eat. And we also get a six pack of bottled water. Then we don’t have to buy things at the game. I park on the street near N 5th Ave & Royalston Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55405.