Summer Fun

Summer has officially started now that school is done. Ethan started a swim/tennis camp this week and Ian is taking his annual swim lessons. Ian has recently learned on his own, accidentally I think, to tread water and lift his head up to take breaths. His coach is working with him on taking breaths and swimming on his back. Ethan loves his camp and has decided he wants regular tennis lessons (George isn't thrilled, I guess he doesn't think it's a very manly sport:). Ian however is not thrilled. He refused to go to his lessons this morning and would not put on his swim shorts. So I put him in the car with no clothes on and by the time we arrived, he decided he'd rather swim with shorts on than go naked. Good choice, I say!

This summer we plan to go to the beach weekly and of course swim in our pool whenever we can. I've collected a number of science, art, and other fun projects to do during the summer whenever the kids seem bored and we've done a few do far and have had lots of fun.

We used some found objects around the house to do a space picture. Ian and I did one as a joint effort. Ethan and I discussed what it means to have God living in our hearts and drew pictures about our heart being "Christ's Home." We did an experiement with Ivory soap-blowing it up in the microwave which was a big hit. Today we built a marshmallow catapult. I think most of the excitement there was the fact that they got to eat marshmallow's:)