Colm has been spending his mornings at golf camp this week. I am totally impressed with this camp. The teachers are SUPER professional, so good with the kids and HIGHLY organized. Colm is learning so much about golf and he loves it. (I know he loves it because he has to get up 45 minutes earlier than he does to get to school and he is my kid who loves to sleep.) Today was the first day that they got to go out on the course. Again, he loved it, but I had to giggle a little when he pulled all of these out of his pocket when we got in the car.
I can totally see him scouring the ground trying to find broken tees. He probably didn’t listen as well today once he figured out there were all these treasures laying around free for the taking. We’ll see if he brings more home tomorrow.
Archive for June 2011
Last year our summer service project was to collect canned goods from our neighbors to donate to the local food pantry. This summer we are going to do that, but we are also volunteering at the local food pantry. The boys and I went today to help unload food and put it in the freezers/refrigerator.
(Project 365-6/28/11)
Not only was I super proud of the boys for working so hard, I was also super proud because they got MANY, MANY compliments from the other adults that were there. 🙂
Colm’s teacher had stressed that she really wanted him to work on his fine motor skills over the summer. So, I got out the Play-Doh today for a little fine motor work today. That lasted for a while, but Colm decided to turn it into something much more entertaining. He took the empty Play-Doh containers and a few plastic cups. He then took a Sharpie and wrote different point values on the outside of each cup and then lined them up. Next, he took a ball of Play-Doh and the goal was to get the Play-Doh in the cup by throwing it and then you’d get whatever number of points were on the cup it had landed in. This was not an easy game. We either kept knocking over the cups with the Play-Doh or the Play-Doh would bounce out of the cup. There were some modifications that needed to be made to the game to get it to actually work, but Colm had a great time with it.
You have served me well over the past nine months or so and you really are the perfect shoe (when it’s not raining or totally cold) but I think our time together is coming to an end. You are starting to get a little hole and pretty soon my toe is going to be peeking through, which means I am going to have to replace you. No worries. I may get a different color, but they will still be a pair of Toms because there is a child somewhere running around without any shoes on and when I buy my next pair of Toms, that kiddo will also get a pair of shoes. I heart Toms.
If the boys aren’t playing Wall Ball, they are playing Four Square.
This book has been a Godsend…not only is it keeping Colm busy in the car, but the boys have been working together on it. (Which means they aren’t arguing.) 🙂
We have had this fire pit for probably 2 1/2 years and tonight was the first time we have ever used it. Sad. I know. It took us 1 1/2 years to actually get around to putting it together and then it just sat on our back porch for a year. Oh, the boys were SO excited when they realized that I had bought everything we needed to make s’mores…from the sticks to put the marshmallows on, to the firewood, to the marshmallows, chocolate and graham crackers. I think Colm’s favorite part of the evening, however, was when I let him throw water on the fire when we were all done. Steam is super exciting. 🙂
Ha! Gotcha! Not really…well, sort of, for one night. Last night our neighbors called us at about 9:30 because there was a cat outside that they thought was ours. It wasn’t. The boys were bound and determined to help the poor thing, so Liam ran back to our house and got a can of cat food and our cat carrier. The cat was more than happy to eat the food, but was not about to get in that carrier. A nice lady passing by on the sidewalk was brave enough to grab the cat and put him in the carrier.
We kept him overnight and then took him to the vet this morning to see if he had a chip. He did, but the phone number attached to the chip wasn’t working. They also had the address of the owner though, so they were going to try and contact them that way. In the meantime, Colm and I made some fliers to post around the neighborhood hoping to reunite the cat and its people. I hope she finds her way home. I am sure her people miss her.
A GORGEOUS day, sitting by the pool eating kettle corn. Life doesn’t get much better.
Now that school is out, I have my household helpers back. (Actually they are better at making messes than cleaning them up, but Colm is all about cleaning the floors…mopping, vacuuming, sweeping…he is all over it.)