Summer Time

Summer has been amazing! I think, because I know it will all end soon enough I am trying to savor every moment.

This week we have had mostly a home week. We got back from the beach late Friday so Saturday was playing catch up/doing chores. I finished all that in record time I might add. We got invited to go to lunch and swimming in a friends pool, so we took full advantage of that opportunity. Then Kylie Jade went to Open Gym at gymnastics where we got to hang out with our gym friends and just have a good time! Jill and I talked about Team and she said Kylie could come try out for free on Tuesday.
Sunday we spent most of the day at home! It was awesome we read/Kylie read to me, got work in the workbooks done, sight word/spelling done and just played some games and cleaned a little more after that we went out with a friend to Coolidge Park. We took a walk on the bridge and heard the music from riverbend it was quite fun!
Monday was another "home day" we spent the entire day home (except for 2 hrs when I went to get my check/deposit it and then to zumba!) We worked on the computer doing games, we did arts and crafts, and we had 0 TV the way I like the weekdays. The girls started off the morning by being outside for 2 hours and then we made smoothies together. Summer has been pretty relaxing so far! When I went to pick up my check on the way to the bank we got hit by a massive storm and then again, while at Zumba another storm attacked East Ridge. We saw trees pulled out by their roots, it was nuts.
Tuesday was the day I've been dreading! It was Madilyn's eye Dr Appointment day.  I knew she would ultimately be fine, but I also knew we were going to schedule her surgery. I was hoping her eyes would've fixed themselves, but I knew better. We were there for a few hours and finally Dr. Peterson made his way in the room. When he took a look at her eyes we found that the problem was worse and her other eye is also drifting. She has a vertical and horizontal drift which is highly likely she will need two separate surgeries! I am not a happy momma, but I got to do what is best for my little girl. We scheduled the dreaded surgery for July 3rd so now I have one more thing to dread. I am so sad that she will be getting surgery right before my birthday, but it was a good day to schedule it since Kylie will be at camp. After surgery I plan to take her for ice cream anywhere her heart desires. I am just so sad that she has to go through it. After eye appointment we went down to the Catoosa Library and took the girls to the Fire Safety day. Madilyn really enjoyed going to see the fire truck, Kylie didn't care as much for it, but she still had fun. We saw my friend Brittany after and Kylie got to see her friend Samantha and she really said she had fun in the 3 mins. she got to talk to her. Kylie got a bunch of new bathing suits and she was so happy. Later during the day I took Kylie to her new team try out and Madilyn had class. Kylie really liked the new team and I was happy with what I saw. She is going back next Wednesday for Team Tryout Day 2. We are really leaning with putting her back on team. I think she is talented and she really wants to compete. Gymnastics has always been her thing!
Today I helped out a friend by watching her little girl for a couple of hours. She was such a good little girl and I am watching her again tomorrow! It makes it so much easier that she is my friends daughter and she is super chill! I took the kids to the pool not long after she left and they swam the afternoon away. Now we are having Star Wars night with my brother and we got a pizza and free crazy bread! =)

As this week winds down the rest of the summer is pretty packed! The girls have multiple summer camps they are attending which include VBS silverdale, VBS lifesport (cheer also), CCS cheer, Gymnastics Camp, Dance camp, VBS Jones! The girls are very excited to start camp next week! I am excited that they will have a few camps away from each other! They really are bonding this summer, but they are driving me bat shit crazy at times. I guess that's normal with kids 3 years apart. Along with summer camps we have fun times with friends to look forward too. We are going to the Sprayground with friends, Kylie is going to have a sleepover, we are going to take the girls to see Inside Out with friends, and we have many other friend outings planned.

Just talking about summer winding down is making me sad. My little girl is going to PREK4 without me...I am going to pretend that isn't happening until desk day. 2nd grade/prek4 is just around the corner. So we are going to take this summer one day at a time!