On Sunday we were home, bored. Thinking about that day's plans. Then Hila messaged me asking about indoor parks, and a few minutes later we had a date at the BP Kids' Gym!
The Kids' Gym is an old favorite of ours. You'll find it in many, many summer posts over the last three years. We used to live around the corner from it, but now we are a mile away. Also, Zusha officially aged out, having turned 7. But we did get him in that day.
I'm sure there were other 7 year olds there, too. Zusha is just tall for his age, making him conspicuous enough to be questioned.
Friends make everything more fun!
Adi on an elliptical. Last year, I tried to put her on a kiddie treadmill and she could barely keep her weight up holding onto the bar. She was holding tighter and tighter until her knuckles turned white, whimpering all the while, ignoring my encouragements to just calm down and take steps.
Now she didn't have to do any of that... she just got off by herself! Ha.
Would've been cool if we all of the seats were taken by our kids, but it's nearly impossible to herd so many of them together at once. :) (The boy in the white shirt is the one that's not part of our gang.)
Monday:
On Monday we went to the program at the library... as usual.
The night before I scrubbed the kitchen, so I thought I'd take photos to look back on and reminisce the cleanliness of the kitchen when it will be restored to its usual old self.
Looking into the kitchen from the entrance area:
Now I'm standing by the sinks, looking out. Under the window are kids' hooks (for coats, backpacks, and now bathing suits and robes.)
Taking a break from lunch to sing "Twinkle." :)
Tuesday Poolday:
After swimming we went inside and made chocolates.
I put out bowls of white and dark chocolate chips, raisins, almond slivers, and tangerine peels.
The boys filled cupcake pans with the chocolates and fillings.
Then we baked them!
They didn't come out that well, but the boys enjoyed!
We ended the day with strawberry milk. I defrosted some frozen strawberries in a bowl, took the juice that ran off and mixed it with milk. Then I took some marshmallows, poured hot water over them to partially melt them, and added them to the strawberry milk. YUM!
On Wednesday we went to the bay...
On Thursday we went out for pizza and ice cream... made a sun catcher... and just relaxed after the previous day's trip.
I have a Google Sky Map app on my phone. You hold the phone up to the sky and you see stars and planets that overlay the actual ones. The little light behind Gedalya is the moon. If he'd point the phone to it, the moon would appear on the screen. Here Gedalya is pointing the phone down and showing me that Mars is on the other side of the Earth.
Wow, what fun!!! :)
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