Home from Colorado. Bishop's last week at the YMCA Summer Power

We were all happy to be home from CO, but the kids especially seemed happy to be home. Bishop talked his dad into taking him fishing on Sunday morning--he just LOVES catching fish! We enjoyed time at home and in the neighborhood.....and the kids had fun with the pool in our backyard.

Pretty excited to be holding the fish on his own!

Hanging out in the backyard!

"Paint facing"! ;)

Crazy girl!

 We signed Bishop up for t-ball and Luke is his coach. This session is through the YMCA. We had to miss the first week due to being in CO, but he was pretty excited to play when we got home!

Batter up!

The benefit of being the coach's daughter-Nora got to hit! :)

Bishop has been attending the YMCA Summer Power "camp" this summer. We thought it would be fun for him to have a "fun" summer before kindergarten and since he's been at Kindercare since he was born we figured it wouldn't be a bad idea for him to transition to something new before going off to school. His group consisted of kids going into kindergarten and 1st grade. They went on a field trip every day and got to go swimming a few days a week as well. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out to be as fun for him as we had thought it would be and he really struggled with it. Drop offs were unbearable. He would cling to us, beg us to not leave and cry. It was not like him at all. We also struggled with his behavior at night. He was acting up and not himself at all! It was tough! We tried everything to figure out how to help him. We believe it was a factor of not having structure or a routine, not having a lot of help or guidance (he came to hate swimming as they rushed them to change afterwards and that was hard). Long story short--after some REALLY hard days and nights we decided it wasn't worth it anymore and we sent him back to Kindercare. He was almost immediately back to himself! Whew! On his last day at the YMCA we went to the bandshell to celebrate with icecream (before dinner) ;)!! He was a pretty happy boy!

Celebrating being done at the YMCA

BBQ at Retzer Jack's!