Our weeks are flying by - it feels as though I am writing this blog every two days instead of once a week. I guess that is a good thing, although it does feel like Arley has been three years old for about five years.
We have been having some really hot days this summer. On the extremely hot days, we don't even go out, we just stay holed up with the air conditioner on. We have been to the pool a couple of times, as that is the kids' go-to place at the moment, and we made it to the beach one day. We have been avoiding the beach a little, because of the holiday crowds, but it really wasn't too bad. We are just used to having it all to ourselves! It was a little on the rough side, and I prefer not to panic, so I think we might be sticking to the inlets for a while. Carmie is great in the waves, but Arley just gets bowled off his feet. We spent three hours there, and it was only when we packed up to leave that the kids decided it was time to build the best sand castles and have a good play on their own. I didn't even get to read my book!
We have been doing tons of stuff around the house. We bought seeds and planted what is supposed to be a butterfly garden, and we also planted seeds for giant sunflowers. Carmie thought she could watch them grow in a day, so she was a little disappointed when that didn't happen! Carmie is hooked on a card game called Rat a Tat Cat which she got for Christmas. She plays with Jeff every opportunity she has (I am always stuck playing a painstaking game of bingo with Arley!), and she is so into it that every morning when she gets up, she sits at the dining room table and plays a game with herself and her 'imaginary friend'. It is a great game of memory, strategy, maths and luck, and she loves it. Arley is starting to read, but the very beginnings. He is obsessed with letters, and can tell you what letters the names of all of his beloved trains start with. He reads these alphabet books over and over again, so something is starting to click there. A couple of days ago, he was playing with his train Denis, and he told me it was spelt D and N and S. Little smarty pants!
Today I took the kids to the library as they had a holiday activity on. It was splash painting, and the kids loved it. Amusingly, I had one mother telling me how I could wait until the paint dries and then they could paint on another layer. :) After the kids did some paintings, we went up into the library and read books, borrowed at least 20 (we were shooting for 10, which is better than the 48 we returned!), and then we went to the cafe for smoothies and reading time. I have two little bookworms on my hands. Love it.
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