July is shaping up to be a beautiful weather month up here. After hanging out in the backyard for the 4th, it made me want to spend a little more time in the sun than I have so far this summer. Thankfully, Nonni doesn’t mind watching her cute grand-daughter so the rest of us can go have some fun!
The boys have gotten some time on their bikes in the cul-de-sac, but haven’t had a chance to get a decent ride in. So when I offered them the chance to go ride their bikes on the awesome bikes paths, they were both super excited! Though Henry seemed a little less excited once he realized he wasn’t riding in the trailer for the first time ever. He was not sold on the concept of having to hold one and (gasp) possibly even pedal!
You can also see that we still can’t find his helmet. Since I needed my own helmet, he used Matt’s skateboard helmet.
It was halfway through the ride before I realized Matt wasn’t wearing his helmet. Way to set a good example, sweetie…
Also, Henry got over his initial concern and was happy to be on the trailer bike like a total big boy. I bet you are starting to wondering why Thomas isn’t on the trailer bike…??
No more trailer bike for this kid - he can ride his own bike, thank you very much! We were worried he would get tired on us and so I had the trailer on the back of my bike, but we totally didn’t need it. He was a total champ at bicycling! He kept up with us and picked up on the trail etiquette super fast. The trails are packed up here this time of year and I can confidently say he followed the rules of the “road” better than some adults we came across.
A well deserved lunch of hot dogs and chips at the park!
We started a new system this weekend at the house. The boys are having some trouble keeping it clean and it’s been causing some tension between the kids and parents. So the boys and I sat down to brainstorm some ideas of how to keep it clean that didn’t involve getting rid of all the toys to make momma an office (much to my dismay!).
They decided to create “centers” like they have at school and use a clip system to show where they are currently playing. When they want to switch centers, they first have to put away the one they are playing with. We made sure all of the toys had a center to call home and the boys were surprisingly brutal on some of their toys and getting rid of them.
Look how clean! I doubt it will stay this clean very long, but I am hoping it at least stays a little cleaner than it has been!
Since they worked so hard on cleaning their playroom, I decided to take them for another park visit on our outing to get the groceries. I have been telling them about a park with a polar bear slide and they were sooooo excited when we pulled up to the park!
It’s a pretty rad slide, huh??
There was also a lot of climbing structures and my oldest monkey had a blast playing on them.
As we were playing in the park, minding our own business, my boys heard the siren call of an ice cream truck pulling into the parking lot. They, of course, immediately started begging for ice cream. I told them I didn’t have any money, which they correctly assumed to mean I didn’t have any cash. They were very insistent that the ice cream guy would definitely take a credit card!
So we made a deal that I would buy them something if he did. As you can probably guess, he is a smart ice cream man and definitely takes cards.
That was certainly not the case when I was a kid!
Ice cream also didn’t cost $7 for two things when I was a kid either! But they were so excited, it was definitely worth the money. Though I had to get them to hurry up and eat them since we had to pick the groceries up by a certain time (I still love ClickList!) and I wasn’t letting them in my minivan with those drippy things!
This girl had a fun day with her Nonni as well! I’m not sure where her pants went (possibly she got too hot?), but look at her working out her legs with her activity center. Who knew it was so multi-purpose??