On The First Official Day of Summer Break

We had a really good weekend.  The girls had field day/last day of school festivities on Friday.  I can't believe Hannah will be in Kindergarten next year!  And Camden moves on from Pre-preschool to just regular preschool.  SLOW DOWN TIME!!!  The field day activities were over at noon and the long weekend started.  Luckily, it was Heath's Friday off and we got to spend some really fun time together as a family at field day...minus Logan.  He was home and in very good hands with a dear friend.

Another brag about my man.  #1.  Look at him.  He melts my heart every time! His kids love him SO much.  #2.  He was one of the only Dads there and played non-stop with the kids.  One little boy was calling him Dad by the end of the day and told Heath he wanted him to come home with him.  He's quite a man.  And husband.  And Dad.  We sure lucked out!  He makes everything so much more fun!  #3.  SO much love.  Him for us.  Us for him.  Heart full.

Me and the girls.  I had to be the voice of reason.  I had to intervene a few times to get Heath and the playing kids on track with the teachers and games so no one got in trouble.  The kids had more fun with Heath than the scheduled games!

Moving on.  The weekend was full of playing outside and eating and spending time with friends.  I was having so much fun that I forgot to pick up the camera.  My bad!

Then, Tuesday rolled around.  Heath went back to work.  This is the first day of the kids being home with me all on our own.  It's going to happen a lot in the next few months.

I thought I'd be proactive about keeping them happy and asked what they wanted to do with the day as soon as they woke up.  Camden wanted to paint.  Unfortunately, we can only do this when Logan naps.  Even more unfortunately, he was up really early and was ready for his first nap at 8 a.m.  As soon as he went down, I made the painting dreams come true.  This was a good hour worth of fun!  It was all over by 9 a.m.  I was really hoping it would happen later in the day, but we take what we can get!

I asked Hannah what she wanted to do.  The girl wants to go to Disney World...TODAY!  After explaining why that couldn't happen, she settled on just playing outside and staying in her pajamas all day.  DONE!  By 9:30 a.m. the painting was over and so was the playing outside.

Hannah has a hard time playing what other people want her to play.  She wants everyone to do what she wants to do.  I was trying to get some cleaning done, which she didn't like. Camden was playing teacher...happily...all by herself, which Hannah didn't like because that's not what she wanted to play.  This left Hannah in the dust to entertain herself.  I thought she was better at this!  Apparently, I was mistaken.

Cue sulking 5-year-old hiding under a chair until someone wanted to play with her.  She really thinks this is punishment for us.  This could be a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG wait, sister!

Happy Camden playing teacher all by herself.

This day already feels like it should be drawing to a close.  It just started.  Only 11 more hours until bedtime!  No big deal!  I have a lot of ideas on what we can do, but I'm trying my best to save some for other days this summer.  I have a feeling my best ideas might all be used up on the first day of summer break.  HELP!  Comment and leave me some ideas on what to do with three kids ages 5 and under for a whole summer.  Gramma suggested baking cookies.  I think we may give that a try during Mr. Logan's afternoon nap.  I need more ideas, though, guys!  Give me your best shot!