Gym Fun

Well today was a fun Day, one of our old Daycare friends invited us to come to there birthday celebration which was at the Iowa State University Gymnastics training room!  It is a pretty neat place and best of all they pretty much set the kids wild and they can do just about anything they want to.  So first stop the balance beam..Daddy gave Owyn a hand or two but she was much more interested in the beanie animals on the floor.  Xavier didn't want any help when he was doing and He did great and of course jumped off when he got to the end.


The other fun and crazy thing was the foam cubes that you could jump into....the kids floated on them and the adults not so much it was kinda like quick sand in a way.  But here's were Owyn spent a lot of time playing around with Fionn(he currently is one of our daycare kids.)
Xavier really liked jumping off of things!
Owyn love seeing that other girl Owyn in the mirror and kept going back to here and trying to play with her she gave herself lots of kisses too!
Fionn and Xavier had fun with this balance beam as well as jumping off the jumper into the foam cubes and then they also got to swing from a rope into these cubes and Xavier got to try out the uneven bars and do a hanging trick and then fall into the cubes.  This was towards the end of our hour and half of fun and the kids were starting to slow down a bit.  Then as we were all heading out Andrew gave us the big finale with a few kart wheels on the long trampoline.  It was pretty funny watching him so his tricks.

Ohio State Fair and Family

We were able to find a time to go visit family in Ohio for the summer.  It sure was nice to see everyone and the kids really enjoyed seeing everyone Great Grandma, Cousins, Great Aunt's and Great Uncles and Aunt Audie too was able to come from New Jersey to see the kids.  We did a lot of just hanging out but our big day out was to go the the Ohio State fair and to be honest we were not impressed the Iowa State Fair makes Ohio's look like a small county fair for lack of better words.  Anyhow the kids enjoyed the animals we found Brutus and we also got to see the Buckeye guy while at the fair.  The weather was a bit hot so we only spent about half a day but really that was all that was needed to see everything.

We had a bit of fun with the tablets and played a lot of games "drawsomthing" was my fave however Xavier really liked the water game.  On our last morning The Grandma's came to send us off and we were able to snap a few shots of the kids and them and this being the best however not great it was tricky just getting the kids to sit still a min.

I know Great Grandma enjoyed see the kids she keeps talking about how we are all growing up so fast and it seems just like yesterday when the big kids were tots.  I wish we live a little closer to make the trip more often but we make the best of what we do have.  The drive home was a bit long but we managed it in one piece and we spent the day following being lounge potato's...its amazing how tired you get from riding in a car.

Fireworks and Parade in Slater

 

 

 

Keeping Cool!

Owyn has created her own Cooling off spot.  After coming in from playing and being super hot she like a cold drink and then goes to the side of the chair were the AC vent is and since its so hot it pretty much runs none stop and she sits or stands over it getting cool and when asked what she was doing this what the look I got from!

British Soccor Camp

Xavier got is first real attempt at soccor through British Soccor camp at the end of June when he attended a week long camp from 9-10am Monday through Friday.  Coach Matt was really nice and had a lot of patient as he worked with the two three year olds and Owyn even tried a bit.  It was great the camp was early in the am because the week of camp temperatures were in the 100's so it was HOT!  The kids learned some games like Astronaut, cat and mice, bowling and a few others I can't remember the name of.  However Xavier created a few of his own creative games like take the cones from everyone and stack them and one day he decided he was going to make the restaurant Tasty Taco's and made tacos for everyone to eat.  It was cute but a little off focus.


Daddy was able to come along one morning and got to learn the game of cat and mouse.  Daddy was the mouse and Xavier chased him trying to get his orange tail. Fionn also got to come along for the day and play Soccor Fionn,s favorite games was bowling!    Here is a picture of Coach Matt, Xavier and Carol(Xavier's second cousin)  Since Xavier was the only one signed up to come we were able to invite Carol and the Daycare kids along with us.  Xavier had a lot of fun and sad he wanted to do it again and Matt said he might be our Coach again so well see next year.