Summer Days

So since getting back from vacation we have been enjoying our summer days. I have meant to post more and the day just seems to disappear! All the girls have been enjoying summer. We have made some trips to our neighborhood pool, the sprinkler water park, the library and seeing friends. The rest of the time has basically been spent hanging out at home and enjoying our neighbors. The girls love playing with their friends in the neighborhood and get pretty upset if we are busy too many days in a row. They love the pool..even Ellie has come around to really liking the pool. Her core muscle strength still isn't as strong as it should be but we are working on it. She need both a floatation jacket and swimmies on her arms to stay afloat but once she is set she enjoys being it the water. We are working on teaching her to move her arms and legs and she now can kick so that's good:) It is all about baby steps. Mackenzie is a great swimmer and loves swimming. She and Ainsley wonder why we aren't at the pool all the time! But Ellie still needs some naps and mom still needs the break so we usually go in the evening when Jeff is able to help out. Ainsley getting to be a swimmer. She still doesn't like going under water which holds her up a bit I think. Mackenzie and Ainsley will be in swim lessons at the YMCA starting the end of July. I hope to get at least 2-3 sessions in them if not more.
They will also be starting soccer at the YMCA the first week of August. This will be the first time for either of them to play soccer so I am wondering how it will go but they wanted to try it so I said ok. Neither of them wanted to dance this next year so we are trying some new things. They also want to take gymnastics. We have a new place close to us so I am going to check out when there different age classes meet and see if we can work something out. I would love for Ellie to take classes too as I think she would love it and it would help her gross motor skills. Speech continues to make slow but fairly steady progress. And hopefully preschool will continue to help her speech progress this fall.
We leave on vacation #2 to Maine this coming Sunday, July 13th. We are looking forward to 10 days in Maine spending time with family and friends. I will probably post a few times while we are there too.
When I upload our pics from our camera, I will post some random pics from the summer.