Summer Days

As our fall calendar starts to fill up with appointments, visitors, work/teaching commitments and the trees begin to turn (yes, it's true here in our neck of the woods!), I've been thinking about the great summer we've had. It's been awhile since we've had a leisurely, slow-paced season, and I think it's been great for us. Here are some favorite summer highlights:

**Trips to the Oregon Coast, Washington, DC, and Montana

**Growing a garden was so fun. We've learned a lot, and I've got some ideas for how we might change a few things next year.

**Jacoby finished up his Occupational and Physical therapy sessions with flying colors. The progress he's made in his gross motor and body awareness has been remarkable. We've still got work to do with fine motor development, but he's cutting with scissors now so we're making progress there as well.

**Morgan is making great progress with his potty training. He's quickly becoming a big little boy.

**We've had some great outings as a family, but we've also enjoyed several weekends with absolutely nothing to do!

**We've had fun trying out new allergy-free recipes. Yum!

**We're making progress towards simplifying our home life, trimming our budget, and becoming a little more "green".

**The new toy library has been a huge hit, and the boys love turning in an old toy and "checking out" a new toy. Mommy loves that the boys only have out things they're interested in and the problem of "toy creep" has all but disappeared!

I'm sure there's more, but these are what come to mind for the moment.

Hope you all are having a great week and enjoying your summer too!

Their curiosity about girls' dresses finally got the best of them. They called themselves "princess mans". Hilarious.

Playing in the fort

Daddy giving a double piggy-back ride