Wrapping Up Summer

Since we will officially start Noah's second grade year next week, that means this week was our last week of completely free summer days.  Here's how we spent them...

At our beloved Cornerstone play area. 

 We go often,

 but this time I actually remembered to pack a decent camera and snap some pics. 

Another day it was rainy out, so we did the pirate thing indoors instead.  These two fashioned an entire pirate ship out of the couch, complete with a plank, sail, flag, anchor, and spyglasses. Then we watched Swiss Family Robinson since there are pirates and ships in that movie. :}

We spent much time swimming and I suddenly realize I stopped taking pics of that activity awhile ago.  That's a shame.  That is where we have spent most of the summer!  Must grab some more swimmy moments for the blog.  My two are FISH I tell you and becoming quite fearless.  They now do flips under water!

In other summer news, we finally set up our badminton net and grabbed a few racquets and birdies off clearance and got busy playing.  This game makes Josh and me smile because we played it a lot back when we lived in GA and had no kids and LOTS of free time. :}

Anna tends to stare off into the sky and loses track of play, but Noah is ga-ga for this new game.

And he's pretty good, too.  He's now asking for tennis lessons (again) and I bet he gets them at some point or another.

Noah has begged to play every day and just waits and waits for the sun to go down some so Josh and I will actually come out.  In the meantime, he and Anna have spent a number of hours out in the sun riding their power wheels in our cul-de-sac and playing with the neighbor kiddos.  I don't know how they stand the heat.  Guess we can just chalk that up to the bliss that is childhood.