We hope everyone had an enjoyable 4th of July. Our long weekend was quite nice. Brian had off the 4th and 5th, so we were able to do lots as a family that weekend. Here are some pictures from the actual 4th.
Brian and the kids lighting off fireworks in our driveway. I'm afraid the kids are going to have Brian's love for blowing things up. They really got into the fireworks this year.
All of our neighbors were outside, so we eventually migrated down a couple of blocks and joined them. We have so many kids similar ages on our street that the kids had a blast running around and shooting off fireworks with them.
Grace and our across the street neighbor Teyla. They are 8 days apart in age and look pretty much alike. From the back you couldn't tell them apart. Teyla's mom, April and I didn't plan the matching outfits, but they sure looked cute!
All the neighborhood kids watching Brian and the other dads set off big fireworks.
All of this happened on Thursday evening. Thursday morning we had gone with Lisa, Chad and the boys to see Despicable Me 2, which was cute. With all the stuff going on in the neighborhood, the kids didn't go to bed until around 11 that night. The next night was our annual trip to South Bend to Randy and Judy Bailey's (friends of Dale and Ellen's). They have a house on a lake and their place always puts on a huge fireworks show. That is always a good time, the kids love swimming there! The next morning after Grace's softball game, we packed up the car and headed for Superior, to spend the rest of the weekend there. Boy were the kids tired by the time we got home on Sunday afternoon!
This last week, the kids have been going to a day camp at a place in Lincoln called Art and Soul. It's a little place on 56th and Pine Lake here in Lincoln that does art and cooking classes, they have a little café and an art gallery. The kids had gotten a gift certificate there for their birthday (Thanks Curt and Renee!) so we used it to put them in this camp. Each day they did an art and cooking project inspired by Latin America. They came home with Carnival masks, rainsticks and other cute projects. They also cooked some yummy food like empanadas, tacos, Tres Leche cake and sopapillas. When I picked them up at noon everyday, they had eaten already and brought leftovers! I would really recommend that place, it was neat and the people were great with the kids.
Will has finally started a karate class. He's really enjoying it! It's at the Y, twice a week. I'm not sure we'll be able to keep up the twice a week schedule once school starts, but we'll see. While he was in his first karate class, Xander and Grace took a rock climbing class at the Y, so they can climb the rock wall whenever they want. Brian went with them. I watched and it looks like Xander is a natural at it, maybe some future daredevils in our household?? Grace took a gymnastics class, which she loved and they are all still doing piano and baseball/softball. Evenings have been busy around here getting everyone to activities. We've still been finding time for swimming and other fun things around town.
They are all in another session of swimming lessons. The boys passed their level, so now they're all in the same level together. I kept Will out yesterday, though. His asthma is flaring up with this cold he's been fighting. He's back on oral steroids and nebulizer treatments, something we haven't had to do in many, many months. It's been some long nights because he's been needing treatments in the middle of the night. But, now he can pour the medicine and do them by himself, so it is nice!
Xander's health has been pretty fine since the hospital in May. He's fighting the same cold Will has, and we've had 2 "my stomach hurts" or throwing up episodes since being back from vacation. But, neither one has turned into anything. He throws up once, or says for a couple of hours that his stomach hurts, then goes back to normal. We did have a follow-up ultrasound on his gall bladder. They called back a couple of days later and everything looked normal. His gall bladder was not the problem. So, now we're at a stand-still on trying to diagnose him with anything, if there is anything to diagnose him with. The next phase of tests are invasive and expensive. They're not sure at this point they want to subject him to that since he's relatively better. We kind of agree, but in the back of our minds we're always a little worried. They've asked us to keep a journal of every time he says his stomach hurts or throws up. Maybe as we look back at that it will give us a clue as to what may be going on. For now, we'll just keep trucking along! I think that's all for now. I'll get some baseball pictures posted soon!
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