Wizzing By....

This summer is just flying don't you all think so? This week seems like it just flew! On Tuesday Lucy got to spend the day with Big Nani and Big Papa all by herself and loved every minute of it. We joined her for a great supper and visit with them. Gideon and Keith even got to fish in the pond and he reeled in a 10 inch bass! Way to go Bud!! I think that's the biggest fish he's caught so he was pretty excited. He came up to Grandma and me, Ella and Luc on the gazebo and said "Guys....I gotta tell you something" with a big smile..." I caught a big bass!!" He was so funny. Anyway we had a good visit as we always do and hated to leave!
It was hot all week so we swam in the neighbors pool quite a bit too. Gideon, who was very fearful of the water at first has been doing awesome this summer. He swims around by himself and is constantly dunking his head in the water and practicing his strokes that he learned this winter in swim class. He is really turning into a little boy. We play frisbee outside almost everyday and he runs around after the soccer ball and hits his tee-ball a ton too. For those who don't know this is big progress for my creative but kinda "in-active" boy. That was our goal for this summer to get him more active. It's not that he sits around and watches tv all the time but he does live in a world of imagination a lot of the time, pretending to be lions and hiena's and any other aniamel possible and we really wanted him to spend some time running around in reality for awhile...he's made great strides and while he still plays pretend a lot (which we are totally fine with) he has become very balenced spending as much time doing that as he does riding his bike and running around outside!
On Wednesday I got to get my massage at the therapy clinic in Archbold. It was very relaxing and quite a blessing on a stressful day. THat night we got to meet our friends new baby Natalie. She was really cute and little and they were all doing well.
On Thursday the kids and I took an afternoon trip to a popcorn factory in Napoleon, hitting a park and stopping for some sweet tea at Mcdonalds to wash down our caramel corn. It was fun, although the "factory" was not as exciting as expected. Gideon kept saying...It stinks in here over and over again....
Saterday night my parents offered to watch the kids so we could go out for our anniversary. We ended up going out to a new Mexican Restaurant in Napoleon called Azul Tequila. It was really good food and Keith and I enjoyed ourselves but the service was so quick we were done eating only a half hour after we got there so we decided to take a drive down to historic Grand Rapids. It's so beautiful down there with the river and canal that we walked through the park and down the main street. It was a very relaxing evening and brought back lots of good memories of when I was a little girl with my great grandma (she was originlly from Grand Rapids).
my parents kept the older kids over night and they went to see The Wizard of Oz at the community theater on Sunday afternoon. Although it was long play the kids loved it. I guess when the witch melted it was pretty quiet and Lucy clapped her hands andyelled "Yay Dorthy!!" Pretty funny.