We had a great time, as always, at the beach. We had a lot of wild-life run-ins this year. A giant sting ray jumped out of the water close to Matt. Luke and Tommy caught a shark! A shark! A real one - about 5 feet long. They also caught some baby ones. There were lots of sand crab collections and jelly fish is small hands (Violet is a friend to dead jelly fish). There was also a horseshoe crab sighting - gross. Yahtzie, spikeball, card games and puzzles, and shopping also provided lots of entertainment.
When we got back from the beach we had some of that weird downtime with nothing to do before schools starts. Adrienne had tryouts for her new travel team - which she made-yay! But other than that we spent time school supply shopping, locker organizing, and school lunch strategizing until Labor Day. We spent Labor Day weekend at Keuka and celebrated Emily and Karis' birthdays and said a silent goodbye to summer.
We are bow about 2.5 weeks into the school year and the schedule is starting to fall into place. Luke is playing modified volleyball this year. Games just started this week so we've been learning a new sport. It's kind of fun to watch him in a sport where his head or face isn't covered by a helmet or goggles. He has a very strong hair game when it comes to volleyball.
The lineup for the fall looks like this:
Luke - volleyball, 3D lacrosse, Roots box lacrosse,piano
Ade - Aces lacrosse, Brighton lacrosse, PACK swimming, piano
Coco - Brighton lacrosse, gymnastics
I'm sure I'll be ready to ditch the schedule and structure shortly :-)
