Water Squirters

How was your weekend?  Ours was really great!  It was super toasty here on Saturday...90 degrees out.  Made for a sweaty soccer game for Chaycers.  Well us too, we were sweating just sitting there.  Then the boys and I headed to the pool.  We met a few friends there and of course they all had a blast!  We'll be hitting the pool a lot this summer as we decided to get a pool pass.  The boys were thrilled about that!  

It was much cooler today...high 60's/low 70's.  The boys have been begging me to take them to the dollar store so, we did a little shopping there.  And then went to dollar theater to see The Jungle Book.  It was a cute movie!  Ash was so excited to see it.  His favorite guy was the tiger...the bad guy ha.  We love the dollar theater.  Their seats are like Lazy-boys...soooo comfy!  Beats the pants off the regular, more expensive theaters.  

After the movie we came home and the boys played with their new water squirters.  Giggles and squeals galore!  Meanwhile Chris whipped up a yummy dinner...smoked pork, taters and brussel sprouts.  It was good!  

My loves.  My littlest munchkin got a hair cut!  I almost cried after like three snips of the scissors.  Oh my goodness do I love his curls.  But it was time.  And he's still as cute as ever!

He loves these huge squirters!

Every time he filled it up he said, 'Don't get me guys!'
So they wouldn't. 

He got Chaycers in the face!

He was supposed to be on Chayce's team, but he
kept getting him anyways lol.

Aaaah!  The duck and run move.

And the squirt Vann while I hide my head move.

But he always squirted the boys when they filled up ha!

Trying to get Vann.

They had a lot of fun.

Uh oh.  Don't get me Vann!

Dude Perfect!  I just happened to catch Vann's swish on camera...yes!  Have you seen Dude Perfect before?  These guys love it.  They are always trying to Dude Perfect something.  

Our summer school fun!

It's officially summer here in the Riley house...yay!  I can't go all summer without school.  I just can't.  I find the kids behave so much better with routine and maybe not a full day of scheduled activities, but some.  And plus they love to learn!  So why stop?  

Well this summer I wanted to do something a little different.  It's hard for me to throw all the workbooks and curriculums we do all year long aside, but I'm going for it this summer!  But we're still gonna learn.  Just in a less school-like way.  I found the coolest idea online a few weeks ago.  A-Z STEM activities.  I thought yes that's it!  

So today we started our A-Z summer fun with you guessed it, the letter A.  We read an apple book.  Talked about alligators and ants.  Played an addition game.  Made paper airplanes.  Learned about absorption.  And had a water fight...wait that's not A lol.  

Coloring their papers for their airplanes.

Vann was in his element here as he loves origami.
He walked the kids through each step.  

Fixing his airplane.  Just like his Dad...always jamming to music.

They were so cute to watch.

Lots of throwing and chasing and squealing going on!  

Chaycers tried to fly his airplane while riding his bike.
And it worked!

They loved this transfer the water from one bowl to another using a sponge game. Like totally loved it!

Waiting patiently for Chaycers to run back.

Lil cutie!

After two games we had to move the chairs to another
part of the yard as it was starting to get a little slippery.  

Somehow shirts came off, the water guns magically appeared
and a full blown water fight was in effect!

He's on a mission to squirt Vann. 

Lots of squealing.  It was great!
And it wasn't long before the hose came out...more water, yes!

'Guys.  I'm literally soak-ing wet.'  Haha!  

It was a fun filled day!  The older kids each have a notebook, or journal.  This is where handwriting, spelling, grammar, etc will come into play this summer.  Each day they will journal about some part of their day using the words I've written on the chalkboard (today was all our A words).  I'm looking forward to comparing day 1's journal entry to the final entry at the end of summer.  It'll be so cool to see how much they've improved in sentence structure, creativity, handwriting, etc.  

The kids are excited about our A-Z activities and so am I!  I'm hopeful it makes for a fun, memorable and full of learning summer.  I have a few more A ideas so, we will finish those up tomorrow.  Can't wait!  

Water guns

The boys got the water guns out last week.  Here are some pics of them in action...

How do ya make this thing work??

I need to get new water guns that squirt a little easier.  Ash had a super hard time squirting them.

Watch out Mom!

No one is safe :)

It was so funny.  He would reach out and down like this and think this would make the water come out.  When it didn't, he figured out how to open the water hole and decided dumping it all over himself was a better solution.  :)

Getting ready to get Chayce.

Here he comes!

Chaycers is after Vann.

I'm gonna get you!