This seems to be my favorite email title these days :)  The older kids are staying the night at Grandma & Granddads (DH's parents) tonight.  We are picking them up tomorrow when we go over for Father's day lunch.  The kids are helping Grandma bake cookies and plant a garden.  They took their bikes, a skip it, and 2 duffle bags full of overnight stuff.  I have not heard from them and they left here at 12:20 so I am guessing that s going well :)  Baby an dI have been working on laundry, and hanging out doign nothing.  Puppy is hanging out in the back yard - DH fixed her good yesterday - well her escape route anyway ;)  She had been getting out of the back yard by sneaking in between our fence and the neighbors fence.  The baby is enjoying his new swing, it is a Fisher Price Power Plus Swing and I love it too :)  The Fisher Price RainForest Travel Swing that we had was recalled so I en ahead and bought a new one even though we had notrell had any problems with it.  I fiured btter safe than sorry  right?  This one is pretty cool :)  We got his Bumbo chair this week too :)  he seems to like it for a few moments but not much longer than that just yet, that is all right he is building muscle control.  We are still waiting on the tray

Have I mentioned that DH bought the kids a Wii?  We all LOVE it!  It is so cool and the mini games are the best part - you can still find yourself wasting WAY too much time on it and I know that I will have to be careful when we start school back up.  But I know it will be used for current events and weather.  We can even submit poll questions for other Wii owners to answer :)  That will be cool when we start school back up too!  I would recommend that if you like that kinda thing (and if you can find one) to get one, they are really neat :) 

The kids have swim classes starting in a few weeks and next week they have spy agent camp :)  They are so excited!  Quite honestly I am not sure if I am!  LOL  The baby is a good baby and ot really fussy at all - unless REALLY hungry or REALLY tired (but we all get REALLY cranky at those times don't we?!?).  The puppy goes in to be "fixed" this week (is she broken really?!?) and the kdis have dental appointments and I think we are going to try to make it to the rodeo street breakfast this year :)  After all I am all ready up feeding the baby at that time!  LOL 

I am starting to think about scheduling for the coming year.  I do not have all the supplies we need ust yet.  I m still "collecting" the books for Science (Bob Jones Science 3).  For Grammer I have Growing with Grammar Grade 3 but am considering Bob JOnes English Grade 3 - any thoughts on that friends?  I want to start back up August 13 but I want to start working our way towards that in the next few weeks (probably mostly after swim classes).

We are doign the luibrarys reading program and we are mostly listening to books on tape for it.  DD is reading to s all a lot.  I am too tired to read, I may fall asleep.  Actually I have started reading Ivanhoe to them.  I need to convince DS to read to us some more but being a boy he would rather listen to us all read to him :)

Well, my eyes are really tired today so I am going to go hold the baby and probably fall asleep with him :)

What are you doing this summer?

~ Rachel