Aquarium

The local Aquarium just this year built a Penguin exhibit. So we went to go see the Penguins with the kids. Here are some of the fun pictures we took the last time we went.

These are so cool looking.
My husband and my son hanging out in this fun area for kids to crawl around in.

My daughter peeking through a rock.

I loved this. She was showing her brother Nemo.

The Penguins

Fun themed Park

We found this fun themed park thanks to a friend who invited us along with them one day. Our kids had fun going there a couple times.

She loved the sand box

He loved the letters that turned.

What we found at the Pond

So this summer we were a part of a summer play group. Once a week a friend who was in charge chose things that she wanted to with her kids and invited everyone along. One week we went to feed ducks and walk around the pond. At the end of the walk we stopped for lunch.

My daughter and her best friend and another friend playing.
My son eating some of his lunch.

Below are some of the fun things we saw on our walk.

I thought this was fun. It almost looks like snow. There was so much Cotton from the trees that was all over the ground.

We have been to this pond before and I had never known that the pond has a waterfall that feeds to a large stream.

Ducks

Feather

Messy Faces

School

We did some crafts and coloring every day for the first part of the summer. Here my daughter is coloring with our neighbors little girl. It was an effort to keep them up on what they learned from their varying school year. You think my daughter was a little young for school and you are right. However she has some speech issues and so we were going to a talking time program through the school district and were working on letters. In order to keep her up on her sounds I worked with my neighbor and we came up with something everyday for 2 months to help with reading and sounds. By about August we got a little lazy. But it was nice to know that when we tested my daughter recently with her sounds since Talking Time with the school year is starting up again that she had retained the sounds and I would like to believe that the time my neighbor and I took this summer had a lot to do with it.

I added this picture of my little guy because while we had arts and crafts he wanted to be involved to and so he got a snack during this time. Occasionally I would let him color to, closely monitored so he wouldn't eat the crayons.

Fun in the Sun and the Water

These pictures aren't in order by any means but here they are having fun in the sprinklers and in the pool. The little guy was asleep the day we took the pool pictures and well he isn't to fond of the little pool either. So getting pictures is impossible. Hope you enjoy!

Here she is going down the pool slide at her Great Uncles house. She loved this slide so much she went on it many times.

Day at the Zoo with Friends

So we went to the zoo with our neighbors one day while their oldest was at school. Here are some pictures from the day.