Goodbye Training Wheels!

Sum-sum-summer time 2018

Ah....summer....time for sundresses and silliness...

...time for geckos and get-togethers

...time for swimming, sprinklers and splashing.

...time for summer haircuts!

Check it out in living color!

Summer started on Memorial Day weekend, when I picked you up early from 'not school school' and took you to Keller's Drive in for some in-car burgers!

It continued with a long walk to CVS to get candy and test out those new pedometer watches and staring contests in the park. 

There were cookies to be baked, critters to be caught and released, and games of chase in the backyard and bike rides...

We finally got together with our friends: 

You learned new games, and played music...

...and had a surprise visit from Kaelyn!

There was more backyard fun, a sleepover (a first!) with Brady, many trips to harvest the garden, a fun trip to the tile store, and more!

And a surprise summer visitor, Holden!

Top it off with swimming, playing cards, cuddling dogs, and  a day trip to the rec center pool, complete with fresh peaches and an amazing million trips down the water slide, and you got yourself the start to a sweet, sweet summer!

Grandparents

We are blessed to have Yaya, Baba, Mimi, and Pops all here and actively part of our lives in Dallas. You spend a lot of time with your beloved grandparents and have real, true, lasting relationships with them. Sleepovers, dinners, swimming, field trips. These grandparents do it all. And managed to still find time to spoil you too!

Here is a slap-dash but heartfelt poem about these four amazing people, based on one short weekend's adventures with them

Grandparents are great for holding your hand to get lemonade from a stand

Grandparents let you feed their fish over and over again:

Grandparents buy you ribbons, and trinkets, and markers:

Grandparents play ball, and don't try to win:

Grandparents come with you on a moment's notice to go (again) to the aquarium:

Grandparents have change and, if you ask, it's yours:

 Grandparents hold you hand as you walk to feed the manta rays:

 Grandparents may be slow, but they're full of exciting nights and days:

 Grandparents love crocs and plaid, and care about what you care about:

Grandparents don't mind being silly, just for a laugh:

And grandparents will always, always give you a smile:

They're with you when you bike:

And they still treat at the Popsicle shop (and get one for their sons too):

The world is a better place because of grandparents ... and you!