My Little Fish

He was doing somersaults off the side without his float by the time we finished swimming today and was swimming back and forth almost the full length of the pool!

Last of Summer

I think it finally hit this week.  Summer is almost over.  Wait, what?

Hold on.  I need a time-out.  Or a drink.  Preferably the fruity kind with a little umbrella that I can drink poolside because that's where it's all at these days.  These nice, hot, long SUMMER days.

It's been a whirlwind week of getting ready for school next Monday, running errands, and trying to fit in everything we left out, thinking we had plenty of summer left.  I felt pretty sad about the whole idea of another summer disappearing into the past, until this morning when I reminded Alex that school starts Monday.  His sleepy little eyes lost their good -morning look and he bounded out of bed, yelling at the top of his lungs with such excitement that I suddenly realized that I'm pretty darn excited about it too.  

Good-bye summer!  See ya next year.  But before we go...

...if you'd like to see a little peek into what our last few weeks have been all about, take a look.

Mayfield Park with the cousins

Alex spent the morning visiting the peahens and peacocks at Mayfield Park with his cousins.  I had no idea they hang out so high up in the trees (the peacocks, not the kids)!

We spotted a lot of damsel flies and one really big lizard while out on the trail.  There's nothing this kid loves more than a morning out in nature.