School's Out For Summer!

Well, it finally happened! School's out for the summer!  It seemed like summer vacation took forever to arrive this year due to the fact that Lia's last day of school wasn't until June 23rd, but it finally came.  Luckily, this wasn't the biggest bummer this year since it rained a lot in June.  Although Logan finished up his preschool the end of May at the Lutheran church, I organized a co-op with three other moms from his class to keep the schedule going Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning for the three weeks that he was out of preschool that Lia was still in school.  This helped to keep him busy and happy while waiting for his sister to join us for the summer fun.  Today, we met his co-op friends and their moms at the splash pad in Puyallup for an early picnic lunch and some play time in the water and on the park.  We even found a few minutes to run into the library to check out some more American Girl Doll books for Lia.  We then dashed over to her school to pick up Lia right at noon.  Surprisingly, she and Mollie (who I had to take home) both met me at the side gate with glum faces and even some tears.  After learning that they were upset that they had to say goodbye to most of their friends for 2.5 months, I told them that this was absolute nonsense.  I would have nothing to do with this!  After reminding them in the car ride home of all of the wonderful things they get to do in the summer that they can't do during the school year, they started to perk up.  Good grief!  Has the girl drama already started or what?!  Anyways, by the end of the four minute car ride home, all of the girls were smiling and laughing.  I sent everyone to play in the sunshine in our backyard after lunch until Mariah picked up her girls.  I think it is safe to say that we are all officially excited for summer to begin!

Our tall, grown-up, third grader flashing a confident smile before heading off to school this morning.

As always, we had to take a sibling pic with silly Logie and darling Ellie B.