Summer Summer Time!

 Ah glorious summer! Late mornings, swimming, ice cream, and of course...baseball! We have had a super busy start to the summer with 3 camps in a row. Jackson did Fun and Games camp at Walker. He loved it! His favorite game was "The Blog". Sounds like some sort of tag game. He had so much fun, he cried the last day wishing it wouldn't end.  We will certainly do that camp again next year! We then had VBS. VBS was a little different this year and was from 6-8:30. I taught preschool art so it made for some long nights. Kids loved it though! Jackson, is now in his Braves Camp, which he is absolutely loving! Its a long day though from 9-3, and with temperatures reaching 100 degrees, I was a little worried. They do a great job of taking multiple water and sunscreen breaks and Jackson has really enjoyed it. Not only do we have day camps, but we are still in All Stars baseball. Jackson is doing great at first base and has a hitting average so far of .889 with 5 runs. So proud of him!

 One rainy Sunday evening, we decided to take the kids to the Movie Tavern for dinner and a movie. My kids love this place. I think its because they get to drink chocolate milkshakes while watching a movie! The only "kid" movie was Tomorrowland. I wasn't sure how they were going to do with it not being a cartoon, but Jackson watched the whole thing. Beckett got bored once the food was gone, but did pretty good!

 Poor Beckett gets dragged to the baseball field all the time. Luckily he has his best buddy there to play with. This is Ryan. Beckett just refers to him as "My Buddy!" I stopped bringing Beckett to practices because I thought he would rather stay at home. Boy was I wrong! He cried and cried wanting to see his buddy. So, these 2 are inseparable! They play really great together, but often end up looking like this!

 So proud of my little All Star! We are in the tournament right now, and if we win on Thursday, we play on Saturday for the championship. Go Dodgers!!

 This is Jackson trying to make himself into a robot. Too funny! He really did not want to stop to take a pic. :)

 Oh Beckett. Beckett decided the dogs needed a shower. He took it upon himself to start showering them with my shaving cream.....

 We took the boys to Braves game. It was great! Jackson's favorite player is of course the first baseman Freddie Freeman. I assumed we would only make it the 4th inning, but the game was so good, that we had to drag both boys out at the 7th. We were hoping to avoid traffic!

 Watching so intensely!

 Go Braves!







Future Braves star?

We thought we were going to beat the crowd until on our way out, we found a kids field where kids were playing. Jackson had to check it out. He was playing with a bunch of 9 and 10 year olds and held his own. He hit a double and 1 right out of the park!

 This was cute. Beckett and his buddies decided to go to one of the other fields to have their own baseball game. Beckett was the pitcher :)

 Jackson decided to take my camera and went around taking pictures. Not bad!

 Jackson's photo. He does a better job than his dadddy does!

 Braves camp! Here Jackson is with his buddies Wynn and Christopher. They have had the best time!

 Tomorrow they travel to the stadium where they get to tour the locker room and run around on the actual field. They also get to meet a Braves player. Jackson really hopes it is Freddie!

 After the first day of camp, I picked them up. The coach came up to me as we were walking out and asked me if I was Jackson's mom. I said yes and he said he did incredible! They made him team captain :) He got team captain wrist band and the black eye stickers that say Team Captain.

This cutie has been doing swim lessons with Billy and is doing great! Today he jumped off the diving board, swam, rolled onto his back to take a breath, and then swam to side. So proud of him!!