The Letter "K" (May 31 - June 7th)

My kids have not been bored at all this summer! From Saturday, May 31st to Saturday, June 7th we talked about the letter "K", as well as doing some much loved family activities.

On Saturday, we got to meet our cousin Apollo for the first time! We met up with some of the Harpenau family at Get Air, and I got to love on baby Apollo while the kids had fun jumping around.

On Sunday, we went to the Butterfly Festival at Botanica during Riverfest. We tried to be one of the first 100 kids through the door so we could get to release a butterfly, but sadly we were about 4 away when they ran out. So close!

Ares wanted a butterfly to land on him so badly! He picked a flower (that he wasn't supposed to do) and held it up to try and get a butterfly's attention, to no avail.

We waited in a line in the butterfly house because we thought it was a line to exit. Turns out it was the line to let loose one of the 100 butterflies. Well since we didn't have a ticket for it we got out of line (we didn't find out what the line was for until we were almost through the line). One of the nice ladies that worked there stopped Ares and let him hold and release a butterfly anyway. It was so nice of them!

While he was holding his butterfly, my sister Lindsey had caught one and was showing the girls.

After our adventure in the butterfly house, we walked around Botanica.

It was such a hot day that we got some snow cones for the kids before we headed into the children's play area.

Special thanks to my Mom and Lindsey for helping me out! I wouldn't have been able to do this without them!

On Monday we met up my cousin Jason's wife Lori and their kids, Kylie, Gabe, and baby Katharine, at the sprinkler park. Brigid had to stay home with Daddy because she had misbehaved all day so she had to stay home and take a nap. Ceri, Ares, and I had a blast though! It was so nice to catch up with Lori.

Tuesday was the girls' first gymnastics class. They had such a fun time with Miss Kate, but since it was just me that had taken them to the class that week, I wasn't able to take more pics. I took some the next week though. I did get this one with their teacher though.

On Wednesday, Ares had a boys night out with Kyle and my Dad. They went out to the Touch-a-truck event for Riverfest. They had so much fun together :)

Ares was NOT in it while it was in the air just fyi!

Ares was comparing his muscles to the fireman's :)

After touch-a-truck, it was time to go to the ice cream social. This was an event where they gave out free ice cream. Yummy!

Thursday was our science day, and since Kyle Ann and Jude had come over, and I was watching Parker that day (and Friday) we had fun with cornstarch and water. Granted I know cornstarch starts with a "C" but it makes a "K" sound so it "counted" for the day. Ares was at his summer reading program at school so he wasn't able to do it.

 

Friday was another fun day where we had Parker, and we were able to play outside since it had rained the day before and we couldn't go to the park as planned.

We then made kites for "K"! I thought I had taken pics of them finished, but apparently I didn't. Here's pics of them coloring though :)

Saturday was the last day of Riverfest, and we planned on going to the fireworks show. Turned out that the city wasn't doing a firework show this year, but a light show instead. We took Ares' friend Aidan with us, and took them first to the end of the carnival. We got some yummy funnel cake, and then found the perfect spot for the light show (and had some fun with glow sticks while we were waiting for it to begin).

Sadly, the light show was not impressive. About the only thing the boys liked were the glow sticks we were playing with, and then Kyle took them to watch some fire eaters while I stayed with the girls to watch the rest of the light show. Hopefully next year they will bring our fireworks back.