Adventures of Evie

  Today was a pretty chill day. We played with some slime, made some ice cream out of play-doh and then this afternoon checked off another easy summer bucket list activity; jump on a trampoline! Since we already have one and jump on it literally daily this is probably the easiest one we'll check off all summer! This is going to be a big weekend for Evie with her very first ever dance recital so we tried to just take it easy today. :)

  If you're following along our Instagram than you probably already know we're starting to check things off our summer bucket list. This one was a super easy one; spend a day at the pool! We've actually spent MANY days at the pool and while we've had a few all to ourselves Evie has also been quite the social butterfly already. She has already made a ton of pool friends and managed to catch up with some of her favorite neighborhood buddies too. The pool is a super easy afternoon activity for us. We pack up lots of snacks, grab towels and sun screen and it's short walk from the house! I am really loving these early summer days and I can't wait to see what the rest of summer has to bring! :)

  This weekend Evie and I spent some time looking for and planning out some fun things for summer. Our schedule stays pretty full but we want to really make the most of this last summer we have before she starts school in the fall. We found this summer bucket list online and while some of these things aren't going to be within our reach, a lot of them are definitely things we can do! Pretty shortly after our list was printed up Evie found a way to check off our first item...dancing in the rain! Luckily she was already in her swimming suit when it started raining so it was no big deal for her to get a little wet! It's going to be a fun and BUSY summer! :)

  Today was a holiday for us so everyone was off work which was nice. It was hot outside and we had the morning to pretty much do whatever we wanted before we headed off for a family cookout. This is a project we did over the weekend since I didn't end up taking any photos of our Monday! We made towers out of pool noodles and shaving cream.  Evie had a lot of fun with this although she couldn't really spray the cream out herself so I had to make big piles of it that she could dip her pool noodle pieces into. They really stuck together well though! At the end clean up was also a breeze! We just hosed out the pool, swished the noodle pieces around to get the cream off and let them all dry. I have some other fun things planned for her this summer with the shaving cream so I'm glad she liked the texture and playing around in it! :)

  Today we finished up making some summer crafts and we played with our water bombs. We made these yesterday but didn't have time to use them much since it was so rainy. She had a lot of fun tossing them around at things...and people! After we finished up with that we tested out our summer obstacle course! First she had to go through a few pool noodle rings... Then through some rings on the ground and onto these posts she had weave in between... Then after shooting a marshmallow through a ring on the trampoline she got to fish through her cereal pool for golden eggs...one of which held her prize! She loved this so much that we had to do it over and over! For the first round I put her prize into a water balloon but that was tricky for her to break open so we changed over to the eggs. All in all it was a fun day though! Looking forward to more summer fun with this. :)

  Today was a rainy and gloomy day. While it was pretty gross out it wasn't super cold and Evie was begging to go outside, so we decided to set up her little plastic pool in the garage and play anyway. I got a bunch of pool noodles recently at Dollar Tree for us to do projects with this summer. I have tried to do this in the past but usually they get snatched up pretty quickly by crafters and they are three times as much at other stores. But today for some reason there were a TON left so we seized the opportunity and grabbed some to play with. We also picked up some sponges to make water bombs with. When we got home I had Evie change into her suit and I cut some of the noodles into rounds. Then we added foam and water and viola! Cereal bowl pool. She had a lot of fun fishing through them, finding rings of the same color, and also just tossing them around. This is a great sensory play idea for younger kids but I have big plans for ours! Hopefully tomorrow it will be sunny enough to ...

  Today was library day and Evie was especially excited about it because today she got to sign up for the summer reading program! She has to read 20 books (which will be no problem at all for us!) and then she gets a T-shirt and a prize. After we got our books and a board game to try out we headed down to the ice cream place for a fish bait sundae.  Then it was time to head to dance! This is her last class before her big recital and I can't wait to see how she does. She's very excited to get on stage in her costume and show off. :)