Isn’t Summer Supposed to SLOW DOWN? ~ Preschool Corner {& 5K too}

Somehow I was under the impression that school being out {a.k.a. summer break} meant that we would be slowing down. Instead it seems that we are jam packed full of activities and I am wondering if things will relax anytime soon.

The older kids returned from a 3 day camp on Sunday, only for me to throw everything into the washing machine, dump clothes back into bags, and then we traveled for a looooooong time Monday to spend some time with family at Great Wolf Lodge.

The kids absolutely loved it. Especially Kaleb who is now able to ride the bulk of all rides. His confidence level in the water has also increased, so it was fun to be able to play along with him and let him enjoy it all as well.

The older kids were super-sweet with him as well and helped him out whenever they could. McKenna helped him ‘jump’ across the lily pads in the pool several times, which he was so excited to do.

We also made a pit stop at Cabella’s on the way home and started watching the fish in the HUGE tank right at feeding time. The kids all saw first hand the food chain ~ watching the little fish cluster in fear as the big fish circled around…and then had lunch. So many of them were swimming around like the above fish for quite some time, and Kaleb kept shouting “WHOA!!! Look at that fish!”

There were so many animal displays throughout the store and it was fun to show the kids some of the animals that I saw in Africa ~ and some that I didn’t see as well.

Thankfully we beat the bulk of the storms home {aren’t the clouds amazing and a bit intimidating all rolled into one??}.

Kaleb and I finished up the week picking blackberries together in the woods while the older kids had swim team. We managed to pick enough to make blackberry ice cream for dessert last night {yum!!!}. Kaleb loved helping get that ready ~ and eating it too!

That is a sum-up of our rather busy-with-travel week. We drove. We swam. We ate ice cream.

The end.

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