Summer Time

School has been out for two weeks and it has finally warmed up so I think summer is upon us. We have had some summer fun already. The boys had a few days of swimming lessons. Eli made great progress and can now swim on his own. Isaac has also learned a lot.

Isaac during his lesson.

While trying to find rings. (They usually don't wear goggles. We were trying to figure out what was making Isaac nervous. We figured out that it isn't water in his eyes but being alone in the water. He doesn't like when his teacher would let go of him.)

Eli paitently waiting his turn.

Keenyn trying to keep himself awake. Swim lessons were right during nap time.

Finally Eli's turn. See, he's swimming all by himself.

Backfloat by himself to get a breath.

Back to swimming.

We also spent an afternoon making ice-cream. It was fast, easy and a lot of fun. Plus, the ice-cream was good. I didn't get any pictures of mixing all of it together but you put half and half, sugar, vanilla, and anything else you want into a small ziplock bag. Then you put that bag into a bigger ziplock bag that has 2 cups of ice and 3/4 cup of salt. Then you shake it up.

I didn't get any pictures of us putting it all together but here is Isaac shaking it.

You had to shake it for 10 mintues. The bag got really cold and wet so we put them both into the biggest bowl we have, put the lid on and then shook away. That way the boys could take turns and didn't freeze their hands. It worked great.


Isaac with his blue ice-cream. Just and FYI, if you make this be sure to rinse the small bag off before you open it. I didn't with Isaac's and the ice-cream got salt in it. Ice-cream doesn't taste good with salt in it.

Ice-cream in bowls.

I was surprised at how well it turned out. I'm pretty sure we will be doing this again.