Eli and Kate are five, and Emma and Hannah just turned three. That is a lot of kids all bunched together, and I'm telling you that two just-three-year-olds is significantly more than just one!
These are some cute kids, and they are helpful and smart and well-adjusted. Davey and Erica are tremendous parents and should get some premium beach front property in the next life for the endurance required to have two sets of twins so close together! Here is how adorable they are. Look what they left on their window (there is a big heart around the whole thing)...
And to help the kids conceptualize the overall plan of who was coming when...
Everything was so well-organized it made it easy to come into their life and keep it going. I must admit I was a bit nervous, so I planned a summer camp with fun writing, math, science, geography and art activities from the book, Playful Learning. That helped me not feel like things were so chaotic! (Plus it helped me relive some of those good ol' homeschooling days.)
The last day we had a 4th of July party where we read the two patriotic books mentioned in the last post, made a flag cake and wind socks, listened to Wee Sing America as we marched around the house and had a bike parade.
We thought it would be fun to adapt a balloon game to our party and called it, Firecracker. You know the game, everyone has a balloon tried to their ankle and everyone tries to pop everyone else's balloon without their's getting popped. Well, there is one very competitive personality mixed with others with serious balloon attachment and others who just didn't want to jump in the fray. It ended with extreme screaming and crying, frustration and pouting and one still rearing to play. It totally and completely backfired as a fun game. You win some and you lose some. Overall, lot of good times.
One little step in passing along the love of FREEDOM to the younger generation.
God Bless America! And God bless parents of young kids too!
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