VBS

This week was the glorious week of VBS.  The kids love it every year.  All their preschool friends go, so it's like a reunion with old preschool friends (who for us have become our besties, mine included).

The first day was wear Blue and we hit up the park afterwards.  Below are Ben and his pal, Sam.

Hills and Em deep in convo.

My man.

Afterwards, I broke out the sprinkler and we snacked al fresco.  All we do is snack because until tomorrow, we have no sink or oven.  It's been rough.

Monday evening the kids started gymnastics.  I didn't sign Ben up but last minute he asked if he could participate.  Absolutely! Then I got the bill and was like, "Man... I wish he didn't want to participate! ;)"

Tuesday after VBS, I believe we hit up the park again and then the kids had their first experience w tball.  I signed up all 3 of them for the program at our gym.  It was AWESOME.  They broke the kids down to groups of about 5 and went through every aspect of playing the game.  It wasn't intimidating for them- just fun.  Below is Benny up to bat. He was the first to volunteer to try.

Running the bases.  The coaches ran along with him, which was super cute.

Below Hill is fielding a grounder.

And Jack at bat.

We went to the pool next for a few hours and then got dinner to-go at the café to eat on the ride home.  Grilled cheeses all around.

The next day I picked up the kids early from VBS for swim lessons - I didn't want Jack to miss because she just started swimming laps and I want her to get the hang of it.  As you can see, Hill switched nametags with her bestie.   They tricked the teacher completely.  They do this all the time.   It was wear orange day but, true to VBS form, Hilly couldn't bring herself to wear orange.  Rock on, Hill.

Here is Jack mastering her freestyle.  Hilly goes first and she does the backstroke herself and is just starting freestyle.

Here is Benny learning the beginnings of diving into a pool. Hilly is the only one super crazy about these lessons.  You can see Jack taking a rest a few feet down from Ben.   Her teacher def gets on her case about sneaking in rests.  A woman of my own heart!

We dropped Jack off at her friend Abby's for a birthday party, so I took the little kids to Rita's.  But I secretly just wanted Rita's.

Then I looked at this picture below and realized Ben needed a haircut badly.  So off we went.

Here he is an action.

Voila.

A promised him 2 minutes of video games afterwards.

How freaking cute does he look.    The other day Jack asked him why he doesn't wear a swim shirt at the pool like Kyle.  His response: "I'm just not that kind of man."  Jack and I couldn't help but start laughing and he laughed too when he realized it was funny.  But his answer was dead serious.  Love it.