It is finally summer here in Seattle, starting about 4 PM on July 5th – right on schedule as the locals say.  Then all last week it was hot, over 90 degrees hot which was great.  The boys had swimming lessons outside and with Colin’s 2% body fat he definitely needs the heat.  The week before he was swimming in 55 degrees – no kidding – he could barely talk when he got out of the pool he was so cold.  Holden on the other hand doesn’t have that problem because he refuses to get in the pool.  Not that the water is an issue, he loves to swim, but he doesn’t like to swim with teachers.  I sit there fuming about spending so much money to have him sit pool side…ah well.

Here are a few pictures from the past couple weeks.  They are in reverse chronological order:

My garlic harvest – about 25 heads, just picked tonight.

Colin enjoying the slip n slide

Holden on the slip n slide

In the larger baby pool in our backyard.

Holden and our peas

Colin, Holden and Uncle Fletcher at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium

The boys and sharks.

Holden on the way to the baseball game with a large bag of kettle korn

The boys on the way to Safeco

For a few months now he has been asking about how much is this plus this, so Santa got him a math book for Christmas. He has been working on it and done about 20 pages, when he got to the word problems page. He could read the whole thing, create the equation and then get the answer – for example:

“Kevin has 7 marbles. His dad gives him 5 more. How many marbles does Kevin have now?”

It is great. The book is a first grade math book. The boy is constantly impressing and surprising me and he just turned 5 a few months ago.

Sorry, I don’t mean to be one of those moms, but in some cases I just can help it…and it is our blog

This afternoon I attempted to build a Gingerbread house with the boys. It was from a kit but wasn’t as easy as I thought it was going to be. The boys restrained themselves from eating candy for awhile but suddenly the house started to colapse and as I was strugging to hold the roof on they took advantage of the situation. The next thing I know, they are picking the pieces off the roof as it’s sliding and licking and eating everything. Turned into a madhouse and a pretty ugly gingerbread house – well, really it wasn’t very attractive from the get go, but that’s what I expected

Holden and I also made some cookies this afternoon:

P.S. I swear Holden wears something other than that orange stripped shirt…just glanced through the last few posts and he is wearing it in every picture.

Yesterday:
Colin: “When I grow up I am going to work like you Dad”
Chuck: “Oh, yeah, what are you going to do?”
Colin: “I’m going to eat lunch then do nothing. Oh wait. I am going to eat lunch, do nothing and then take a nap”