Summer Art Camp

Lilly's favorite subject in school is definitely Art.

Knowing that, it wasn't a surprise when she asked to join the summer art camp offered by her favorite art teacher. Each day Lilly came home with the neatest things.

Here are just a few of her summer creations.

"Zebra drinking water from a pond"

Collage of "Mom running at the gym"

Clay sculpture of "prickly pear cactus with flower blooms"

Painting of a "beach and ocean, with seashells"

Art camp #2 gears up in about one week. I think we need more wall space!

Say Cheeseball!

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to our favorite Dad!!

Our Dad of 3 girlie girls deserves lots of love and hugs on this Father's Day.

We love you!!

Happy Father

Summer Swim School

Nothing says summer like swim lessons!

Claire was the lucky swim student this summer... it was REALLY hard to get into lessons this year!

Claire had a nice refresher class to begin the summer swim season.

So far, swimming is not Claire's favorite activity; she doesn't like putting her face in the water. But, when she decides to swim with her kicks and scoops (arms and legs) with eyes down (in the water) she does a REALLY great job! And, she is super strong which equates to speed.

Here she is... doing what she is supposed to be doing.

Her favorite is the back float. 

I must report that Claire was the unhappiest student at swim lessons. Each lesson was met with tears and clinging to the pool fence. Once in the water she would ask each instructor, "How many minutes?" Then, she would do everything she could to avoid putting her face in... dog paddle, etc. 

On her last day of lessons I asked her to give me a smile and to at least pretend she liked to swim. Here's what I got...

 Let's hope swimming at Nana's will give us great practice and a love of swimming.

Miss Ma-Moo

Maggie is full of personality... we see this become more apparent each day. 

One afternoon, while she was being her silly self, I captured a few cute pics...

She just won't let go of the pacifier! Take a close look at the safety pin holding her bink clip together.

 When you ask Maggie to "say cheese" this is what you get... Cheese!

 She is just so cute!

And she is growing SOOO fast!

 

Funny Photos

My apologies to our blog readers! I have neglected the blog. But, I vow to get back on the blog saddle now that the semester is over.

As I was going through photos, I found these two especially funny ones...

First... For awhile there, this was Maggie's favorite seat... the fridge. Why not? It's cool. It's comfy. Snacks are near. She can pretty much open the fridge, help herself to a snack and cool off too. Smart girl.

One more... It's not uncommon for Claire to take herself to bed. On the evening of her birthday party (photos to come) I found her like this... on her floor, completely passed out from birthday excitement exhaustion
She was all covered up... just feet from her bed! That's our Claire!