June 2017 Happenings

We managed to fit in quite a few activities in the month of June. First up was a visit out to the ranch and tractor rides with Tio. Of course the boys had a blast and have decided they want to drive tractor for Tio when they are older.

Aunt Di Di and TJ came to town and we were able to celebrate Diana's Birthday with a nice dinner. Of course since it was a party Reed insisted on taking pictures. Most of the below are his. The highlight of the night was the kids trying to help Di Di blow out her Birthday candles and ending up getting spit everywhere. Luckily Diana was a good sport about it and just cracked up.

Kieran had his end of the year music class performance. His class sang three songs and he did a pretty good job of singing all of the songs and doing all of the hand motions. The kids are still not old enough to be up on stage by themselves which means the moms (aka a bunch of my friends) get to stand awkwardly on stage with them.

Reed's preschool has a Summer day care program that Kieran started in. This means three days a week the boys (and Lyla) go to school. They have lots of fun activities, a little bit of classwork, and a bunch of time to socialize. It is the perfect introduction to school and Kier has loved it so far. It's also awesome for me to have one place for the boys to be dropped off in the morning and picked up in the afternoon.

Great Papa Dean hadn't been feeling well and missed our annual Father's Day get together so I took the boys up for a visit. Grandpa joined us as well. I only managed to take one picture, but at least it was a pretty cute one of the three of them!

It wouldn't be summer without swimming at our house. The boys swim teacher was gone on vacation so we tried getting in the pool with them as much as possible to practice the skills they learned last year and work on a few new tricks to impress her when she returned. Both boys have done great. Kieran still has a lot of fear but is a good sport about trying things and trusting us. Reed is a little fish! He can float on his back forever, dive to the bottom of the middle of the pool for toys, do freestyle across the pool, and would spend all day in the pool if we let him. I can't wait to see what he is able to learn from Morgan when she returns.