Adventures of Evie

  Today was a half day for me at work and after I got off we had a ton of errands to run. After we finished up with those we just wanted to come home and relax. We played in the pool, ran through the sprinkler, and just had a lot of fun being silly and enjoying the weather. This evening Evie really wanted to make s'mores so I picked up the stuff for it while we were out and we made some before we did her bedtime routine. Life has been super hectic lately so we haven't had a ton of time to just relax and stay up late and exist so it was nice to take some time today to just do nothing and enjoy each other. We also visited the library since it will be closed Monday and we needed some new books! It was a super fun way to start July! :)

  Today was a BUSY day for us! First Evie had gymnastics camp. Today was pajama day so she got to wear her pajamas for camp. They played games, worked on some basic skills, and Evie had her first go on the BIG kid uneven bars.  Then we got to head up to nana's for some Fourth of July fun! She got to run around in a huge bubble pit, slide through a soapy slip and slide, eat snacks, and watch the fireworks of course! She also got a Kona Ice in a color change cup which she loved. Her flavor of choice is always wedding cake, watermelon, and cotton candy. These will likely be her only Independence Day fireworks this year and they were really cool. They even had skydivers with fireworks as they fell through the sky! It was also just fun to have an extra family day though. :)

  Wednesdays are meant to be our water play days and it has been so hot that we have played with water pretty much non-stop so far this year. Sprinklers, pool days, and endless amounts of water balloon fights. Today we opted for the pool in the yard. Evie took her Barbies and their boat in and had a blast playing pretend with them for hours. We also made some "fancy drinks" in these little pouches I got. It's just lemonade and a splash of grenadine but Evie loves to watch the grenadine creep up from the bottom and eventually turn her whole drink pink. It wasn't a huge learning day although we are still working on reading, but it was a super fun one! :)

  It's Pride month and while we are usually in Boston for their Pride Week (and very sad not to be this year) we couldn't let the whole month go by without doing something to celebrate. So today we made this rainbow turtle. The turtle itself was part of art camp and we made him rainbow with lots of gems.  Evie had a lot of fun weaving the colors into him and adding all his embellishments. We have had many talks over the years about how families look different and how love is what makes a family. As she's gotten older I've gone a little more in depth about those things but mostly she understands that some families have mommies and daddies, some have just a mama or just a daddy, some have bonus parents, and others have two mama's or two daddies and that any and all of these combinations are totally OK. The important thing is that families love and respect each other and create a safe and loving place for everyone involved. I think it helps that her family unit is just...

  Well it's Monday again. Mondays are always rough days getting back into the routine. This week we mixed things up and I set up a series of stations for Evie to float through over the day. She had a work station for writing practice, reading practice, and various worksheet activities. There was a play station with a little farmers market for her to play with. Then an art station with paints, paper, stickers, and glue. Lastly a sensory station with various buckets of water beads and items to dig out. I wasn't surprised that she gravitated first to art and then to sensory but eventually as the day went on she made it around to all of them.  After I finished up work we went outside to enjoy the sunshine. It was so nice out today. Not brutally hot as it's been lately but warm enough to splash in the pool and run in the sprinkler. In the later evening we set up the foam machine on the trampoline and she had so much fun pretending it was snow! She tossed it around, made snow ang...