Girls of Summer

Things have been pretty busy around here for the past week or so. Grandma and Grandpa visited last week (which meant much house cleaning prior to their visit) and then Uncle Dude visited on Sunday (we didn't clean the house for him) and then Aunt Louise and Uncle Mike (and their dog Dixie) visited on Monday (again, more house cleaning). It was fun seeing all these people and I didn't even mind cleaning the house. I know. It surprised me, too.

In between all the visiting we managed to get to a few outings and start kindergarten camp. I'll let the girls tell you about K-camp later, but here are some pictures from some of what we did.

Hannah went for her first trip on the bike path in Pottstown. Lizzie has gone before with Rob, but Hannah didn't go because of the training wheels on her bike. Rob decided to see if she could keep up with the training wheels, or if she'd want to take the trainers off. Here they are getting started:

And here is Rob trying to teach Hannah to ride without training wheels. She looks like she's having fun, but this lasted all of about 20 seconds. Then she was done:

So here she is tossing rocks into the Schuylkill River, where she spent the rest of the bike-riding time (with me). She DID have a good time doing this. She said that maybe someday she'll ride without training wheels but for now it's "too boring."

Here we are at Terry's pool. Hannah and Lizzie both have their own personal diving board styles, don't you think? Lizzie prefers the element of surprise...

Hannah, on the other hand, just prefers to jump as nuttily as she can:Hannah practicing her kicking:Lizzie paddling around without her swimmies on!