Summer Break: Week Five

Last week, the kids and I visited the library three times, went to the Children's Museum and the zoo and the movies, listened to a concert at Miller Outdoor Theatre, played hard, and celebrated the Fourth of July with friends and family!

The boys love the Children's Museum but it is always so crowded, especially in the summer. We got there right at opening last Monday and it was busy... but the boys played hard and had fun and we left before it got too insane.

Henry lost his second tooth last week. It was wiggly and he asked Gene to pull it out Monday night. The Tooth Fairy visited our house two times in three days!

Did you know there was a leap second last Tuesday? We watched the extra second as it was added to the clock. Check out Henry's toothless grin!

On Wednesday, we were back in the Museum District to go to the Houston Young Artists' Concert at Miller Outdoor Theatre. The young musicians were incredibly talented and the show was phenomenal. The only bummer was the heavy, sideways-blowing rain that reached our seats, even though we were well under cover!

We spent Thursday morning at the zoo. It was warm but not too hot.

Summer = relaxing on the grass, head on a football.

Henry and Gene picked up some Crave cupcakes on Friday, just because.

We celebrated Weezie's 14th birthday last week too! She is such a good cat and was curled up with Will's How Things Work  book. Doesn't it look like she's reading all about levers?

Henry has really been into creating his own games lately. This is Monster chess, which is similar to regular chess but with some wacky rules. He's also created a monster card game, but we're still tweaking the rules on that one. 

And finally, we had a wonderful Fourth of July. We celebrated with Gene's family in the afternoon and then went to our friends' annual Fourth of July barbeque and swim party. It is always a good time. This year, the boys are finally good swimmers, so they had a blast jumping off the diving board and swimming around. The evening ended with sparklers and fireworks.

I hope your Fourth of July was full of barbeques, waving American flags and sparklers on the driveway!