Summer Can’t Come Soon Enough

Is summer really coming? I can’t wait for some sunshine and toasty weather!

Elijah’s summer is getting all planned out. Summer program forms are being sent home from school ever Friday these past few weeks. He seems to want to join everything from Invention camps to tackle football camps.

So far he’ll be going to the Wisconsin Lions Camp from July 20th to 25th. I want to go too, it is SO BEAUTIFUL there! He went there last summer for the first time and LOVED it! He only had one complaint. His group didn’t get to jump into the mud pit because the girls didn’t want to. (Those darn girls!) Elijah was actually nominated as a future camp counselor, because he helped out so much with the other campers. At camp Eli is “Top Dog”, he can actually sees better then majority of the kids. I was so happy he learnt to assist the others and was such a helpful young man. The theme of last years camp was crafting and my boy even got the Camp Crafter award! He got a patch and we put it onto his camp sweatshirt. He’s excited to go back.

He just turned in his registration form for a Camp Inventions at his school. That will be the week after Lions Camp. He is really excited about this too. One of his friends were in it last summer and told Eli all about it. He gets to take a VCR apart and other electronic items. He’ll turn into my Little fix-it boy after this camp!

Then there are two other camps he was really interested in. These camps are held by the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Unfortunately the one he really would like to attend is during his Lions Camp week. This one is Touch the Stars, he loves his telescope and looking into the sky. We are getting information on the Folk Art Fables and Fantasy camp. This is a two week camp based on medieval times. Should be fun. However, he’s (and myself) are concerned that he’d be gone for two weeks, come home for three days and then head off to Lions Camp for a week. That’s alot of time away from his mommy!

Yes- all those donation boxes you see at the checkout for sending blind and visually impaired children to camp really do work! Eli attends all these camps FREE OF CHARGE! THANK YOU to all that donate! It doesn’t matter if I made $100,000,000 or $1,000 a year, he goes FREE! We always put our change in. Infact, last time I got $37.87 back as change and Eli was SUPER EXCITED to put so much in. (Even though we all know $37.87 really isn’t THAT much!)

KS-Eli’s VisuallyImpaired teacher just told me about a sports camp too. She not sure of the dates or if the deadline has gone past already, but she’ll be getting me more information. KS is looking into other activities for him as well.

To add to all that, we need to get him into his swim lessons, gymnastics camp and anything else he’s interested in. Soccer season is an all time favorite too. Unfortunately, he’ll miss three weeks of it due to the camps I mentioned above.

I’m excited to say Andrew will be around more for the summer this year. He will technically be with his father, but his father has now moved back to Wausau. So, this allows Andrew to join his Cross Country camp and run all summer in the summer running club. He is also planning on joining LaCrosse camp.  He enjoys his time with his father, but he didn’t like being two hours away all summer long. He would come home for one week a month, but was still unable to join summer programs with his friends.

Then there’s the PooWee man! HE GETS TO GO BIKING THIS SUMMER! I AM SO EXCITED TO JUMP ON THE GOOD ‘OL BIKE!! It has been two summers since I got to go out and bike my lil butt off. (First I was pregnant and the next PooWee was too small.) I’ve missed it terrible!

I have a bike trailer from when Eli was my little guy. It’s nice, but I’m really looking into a bike seat too. Now they have bike seats that go in the front of you. Anybody use one of these? I kinda like the thought of them. HOWEVER, how many times do you think PooWee will throw his head back and smack me in the face? OUCH!!!

I like the trailer for picnics and lugging extra stuff with us. The one I have seats two kids. There are just times that I didn’t like having it behind me. Plus, I did tip Eli in it once. I rounded a corner too fast. OOPPSS! He was fine and actually laughed and told me to do it again!

Eli also thinks PooWee needs to join Toddler Tumblers class at the YMCA. He wants PooWee to follow in his footsteps as a gymnast. I’m thinking about it. Eli has gymnastics tonight, so we may just check it out. PooWee sure would love his chance to get out and play on the mats just lie his big brother. My mom has been watching him lately during gymnastics because he’s just too hard to handle. He wants out by big brother, to jump and roll and run around on the mats. The parallel bars are quite intriguing to him as well. 

Summer, I can’t wait for it to come. I LOVE the heat! I love the sun shining in my eyes! I don’t even mind cutting the grass. I get to hang my clothes out to dry and then they smell so fresh! (And don’t forget the savings on the electric bill!) MMM, I can’t wait to grill fresh veggies on the grill. We are outside from morning to night in the summer. I just can’t wait to get out of this house and have some fun!