Our {Wild & Crazy} Days

The end of summer is coming to our neighborhood! So sad! Most of the kids around us have started school (our neighborhood has kids in 2 different public elementary schools, a charter school down the street, and a couple odds-n-ends kids who go to other charter schools- and most of them have started). So we spent this week working our way back into our school routines. I don't know why really, because it will all fall apart when I go to South Carolina to see my sister, brother-in-law, and their beautiful new baby girl, Tylie, and then we will take a family vacation to San Diego the next week, but in the meantime I guess it keeps us from pulling out our hair. It also explains why my blogging has slacked off lately.

Part of our school routine is a mid-morning walk to a playground a couple blocks away. Olivia and Jolie are just getting to the age of loving playgrounds, and Austin and Nyah are, for the most part, sadly out of that age. But there is a bit of trail around the park they can ride bikes or scooters on, plenty of "wild" areas to explore, and sometimes they find themselves hanging upside down from the monkey bars. King and Queen of the mountain

Run-away girls

Austin and Nyah riding back and forth down the trail, while the girls walk to the end.
One of the wonderful things that is recently happening is Austin and Nyah making their own lunches. I tell them when I am making lunch, but if they choose not to come in then they are on their own when they do get hungry. They are still learning the clean up part, but overall its pretty exciting to watch, even when peanut butter sandwiches with chow mein noodles on them are on the menu.

Jolie sliding- something she loves to do.

Hanging out together- its always nice to see that they DO get along.

Yes- following this video Olivia did have a good cry over the bump on her head.