Kids and Summer activities

The summer fighting has begun. My kids need some structure or some activities to keep them from fighting. I usually have crafts set up and a day to cook or bake something, we do a field trip once a week, maybe the $1 movie at the theatre but this year with the baby its been hard to get anything set up.

I can't stand all the fighting that has begun now though. My two younger boys play together really well. They will go outside and jump on the trampoline play outside with toys, in the dirt or mud. But its been raining a ton so they haven't been playing outside as much. They have good imaginations and play with toys and come up with things inside but then they get fighting and I want to rip my hair out so I sat down on the computer and thought I can do a week at a time so this week we are doing a camping week.
Our activities for camping week is as follows:

We are going to the library to get books on camping. I ordered one from the kids last book order of the year. Mercer Mayer's Little Critter book Me and My Dad and they go camping.

Make indoor forts or tent with blankets etc.
Tell ghost stories
Let them sleep in it at night

For cooking and baking:

Hobo dinners
Another dinner night will be roasting hot dogs and marshmallows. (the weather is supposed to clear up and be good this week except one day)

Make smores and trail mix.

Make Banana boats for dessert one night.

Go on a walk and gather twigs, leaves, rocks, etc

For crafts we are going to do:

Camping Paintings-
we will use our twigs, rocks, leaves and stuff from our walk.

Camping Collage- they can make with the leftover stuff from the walk and I'll print out a few pictures too.

Make stick men- have them hunt for sticks and glue their own stick men together along with googly eyes.

Make grocery sack backpacks

Make glow in the dark pictures that they can see while they are sleeping in their tent.

Coloring and some activities on paper about camping.

So this is my plan for this week. Hopefully the weather will hold out maybe I'll let them sleep out in the backyard but the mosquitos are so bad after all the rain. Hopefully this will make my week go by faster.

Lagoon a beach

We took the kids to Lagoon and Lagoon-a-beach on Friday. We went to the water part first.
Paislee liked it but not the water. It was freezing. It was a warm day but not hot day which was good for Lagoon but bad for the water park.
Treyden almost fell through the hole. But he had fun even though he was freezing later.
Tyson is a fish. He loves the water and playing in the water.
Tyler and Treyden floating around the lazy river.

Paislee's hat was a little too big but it was the only one left in the infant-6 months size. Notice the redness by her nose. She slid her way out of the stroller while I was putting sunscreen on the boys. She scrapped her nose and face up on the cement. I felt so bad. Her first owie!!

Baseball Games

Tyson is playing Coach Pitch this year. He made a good hit and made it to first base
He's sitting waiting his turn to bat. He is such a poser.



Yes you are the Indians. Tyler was helping coach first base.

Treyden and his friend Paxton sitting watching their brothers play. The wind was cold and it started to sprinkle.

Summer Days

I'm so behind in my blogging lately with the kids home its crazy and Dakota has been to different camps, art camp and he's at computer gaming camp for the next 2 weeks. I've been trying to come up with some ideas for kids to do during the summer. I found some ideas on this blog Chocolate On My Cranium Check out some fun summer ideas.

T-ball

Treyden started his first year of t-ball. Every Monday and Wednesday. He is at bat. Oops he hit the T.
He is such a go-getter. He will always run to get the ball out in the field.