Anthony spent the night at his big sisters’ apartment Sunday night so he helped pack his own lunch and snack for Monday while he was there.
Anthony bought his lunch in the cafeteria on Thursday (he loves their pizza) so no lunch from home needed for him that day.
Zeke bought his lunch in the cafeteria on Friday (he picked chicken tenders). Mayci and Nicky so far have declined the offer of buying lunch once a week. They like their lunches from home better than cafeteria food.
The kids have really gotten into playing with the Perfect Blocks again. These blocks are all the same size and shape. The only difference is their colors.
What can be built with them is only limited by the imagination. They play with them now pretty much every day. Definitely the favorite communal toy right now.
The kids have been having a lot of fun with our Perfect Blocks lately. They get played with every day. They’ve found keeping them in one of the couch consoles is very convenient and they fit perfectly in there, too!
For his birthday in July we gave Nicholas tickets to go to Jurassic Quest.
The day finally arrived last Saturday.
He was so excited to see all the dinosaurs.
He was 100% sure they were all real.
He was a little afraid of some of them.
He got to ride a dinosaur!
And dig for fossils.
He met a baby dinosaur.
And a Utahraptor, too.
He ate an entire icee all by himself.
And got to drive a jeep (his favorite thing).
Jurassic Quest was so much fun it wore him out!
All seven of the boys still at home got their hair cut in preparation for school starting. I’ve got some handsome young men in this house!
Fritz, age 16, 11th grade
Adrian, age 14, 9th grade
Zeke, age 7, 2nd grade
Anthony, age 5, kindergarten
Nicholas, age 4, pre-k
Noah, age 3, ECSE
Joel, age 3, staying home for one more year
This summer the kids (especially Mayci) spent lots of time at dance camps (plus a sports camp for Zeke). They all had a great time and it helped break up our days.
Mayci started the summer with princess camp. One day her teacher even came in dressed as Belle ready for the ball. That was an exciting day for all the girls.
Mayci, Nicky, Noah, and Joel did a ballet and jazz camp. The boys were kind of crazy but they had tons of fun. One day we went to pick them up and Joel was sound asleep, totally worn out by all the activity.
Mayci’s next adventure was Encanto camp. They danced to We Don’t Talk About Bruno. She had a ball at that one. After all, she absolutely loves Encanto!
Zeke did a two day Disney sing-a-long camp and then did musical theater camp. He really enjoyed being on stage when he did the acting class at school, but add in singing and dancing and that’s his idea of heaven (he loved it so much he’s taking musical theater at the dance studio this year).
Mayci and Anthony took acro camp where they both enjoyed dancing and flipping and stretching. Mayci was made for acro with how bendy she is (she’ll be taking acro class this year).
Ballet camp is where Mayci discovered not only does she enjoy doing ballet, she is good at it. Anthony, who had never taken ballet at all before this camp, learned so much including the correct terms for some of the moves. Mayci was disappointed to discover she’s too young still for a ballet-only class, but that’s okay. She’s taking a ballet/tap combo and a ballet/jazz combo this year so between the two of them it’ll be like she’s getting a whole ballet class after all.
The last week of summer all four of the older little ones went to camp. Anthony and Nicholas took hip hop. My new favorite thing is little kids hip hop dancing. So of course Anthony will be taking hip hop this year.
While Anthony and Nicholas were doing hip hop, Zeke and Mayci were doing ballet and tap. Zeke loves tap (so of course he’s taking ballet/tap with Mayci this year).
This summer of dancing ended in Mayci winning a spot on the competition team and us picking out classes that will put at least one kid at the studio five days a week. Apparently dance is our life now.
Smaller on the Outside 