School's Out!

Jacob's last day of school was last Monday and they had a little pool party for the kiddos. He was so excited!

Here he is all set to go in his new Super Hero Squad swim suit.

My mom snuck over to watch for a while and took some pics. Looks like fun to me!

                            

Jacob really enjoyed his first year of JrK. He made some friends and learned a lot, but we and his teacher don't feel he is quite ready for kindergarten yet. He is the youngest in his class and isn't ready academically or socially, so putting him in JrK again should give him time to grow more and be all set for kinder in another year. He's already talking about next year!

So, what have we been up to on our summer break so far?

** We've started doing a little 'school with mama' to keep Jacob brushed up on all his skills. We do number of the week, shape of the week, work on writing his name and cutting (yikes!) and we have a theme of the week (last week was fire trucks and this week is construction). We get books from the library and do crafts based on those themes. Nothing too spectacular, just a little something to help Jacob out in the areas he needs a little work. 

** Playing with friends

** Getting summer hair cuts

This is the two minute cut

 This is in the middle of the two HOUR cut. Jacob was just so, so mad about getting his hair cut. We made him sit at the picnic table until he was done. He would let us do a small portion, then throw a huge fit about it and run away. 

Finally after two long, excruciating hours we got it done. Can't wait for next time!!

 ** Going on treasure hunts

Argh mateys! 

Enjoying their treasure - peanut butter, oat and chocolate chip balls

** Putting out 'fires' in the backyard. Apparently, our entire yard was in flames!

Yeah, I totally got blasted here.

** Went to a baby shower.

 Sara is a friend of mine from boot camp and these are the boot camp friends who were at the shower. 

Mandy, Ashley, Daniella, me, Sara and Adriana. Love these ladies!

I actually won a prize! I knew the most animal baby names and received one of these cute little duckies. Isaac was in LOVE with it and wanted to give it kisses! 

** Hosted a Mom's Night Out for the ladies of boot camp, but sadly forgot to take pictures. What was I thinking? We all had so much fun getting pedicures and manicures, eating snacks and chatting the evening away. 

Vacation

A couple weekends ago, we headed north for a little vacation. It was fun to get away for a while!

Traveling with 2 Captain Americas!

The first two nights we stayed in Half Moon Bay so we could go to the Maker Faire in San Marcos on Saturday. It was a ton of fun!

There were lots and lots of people!

First we saw the bubble makers. This guy did this all day long. I am sure his arms were hurting the next day!

The boys LOVED the bubbles!!

This whole train and track was made from Legos and Jacob thought it was soooo cool! In fact, at the fountain the other day, he threw in pennies and made a wish for a Lego train. Good luck with that, kiddo!

There was an area with tons of cool bikes.

Fuzzy bunny bike - weird

Fire, lots of fire. Geeks like fire.

My two robots!

Mommy Monkey. I love how it looks like Isaac is ticking my armpit.

Back to the bubbles - this time to make our own bubble makers and try our hand at making big bubbles.

Is that Adam Savage from Myth Busters?

At this point Isaac crashed out in a nap in the stroller. Jacob saw this big dragon thing and that people were climbing up into it to move its tail and he was determined to do it. Alan and I were skeptical that he would follow through when the time came, but we stayed in that line until the bitter end.

Jacob proved us wrong and climbed right up that ladder, on to the red couch and happily pulled on the string to move the dragon's tail. He had so much fun and I was so proud of him!

Taking a little break in some funky chairs.

Another favorite area was the Lego jeep. I think the boys would have stayed there all afternoon if we let them!

This was truly crazy! It was called Tapagami, all made from masking tape!!

The background is all wire hangers covered with different colored fabrics.

Now it was Jacob's turn to nap in the stroller and while he slept, Isaac went to the Robot Petting Zoo. He LOVED it!! He says his favorite part of the whole trip was the push the button robots.

The next morning we started our way to Lake Tahoe. We decided to just leisurely make the the 3ish hour trip. First we stopped at the Temescal Farmer's Market in Oakland. It was awesome! Alan wanted to stop because he heard that there was a mobile pizza oven there. Since it was still mid-morning, we had the breakfast one. 

Then we did a little hula hooping. Alan's pretty good!!

The boys tried so hard!

About an hour later, we stopped at a fun little playground to let the boys run around a while and to eat our lunch of delicious little quiches we bought from the farmer's market.

Snow!

The purpose of going to Tahoe was to watch the solar eclipse so we picked up some sandwiches for dinner and found a place on the lake to watch it.

Jacob says his favorite part of the whole trip was watching the eclipse.

See the tiny little crescent on the Goldfish bag? Cool, huh? Alan made that with his fingers.

The boys had a blast playing on the rocks.

Our original plan was to get into Lake Tahoe earlier enough on Sunday to be able to explore a bit, but we moseyed a bit too long and didn't get there until late afternoon, so we decided to stay another night.

The next morning we went on a little hike. We called it a nature walk for Isaac's sake since in the past he has not enjoyed hikes. He did great!

Jacob 'vacuuming' the forest.

This is Fawn View Lake. We were standing on a ridge overlooking it and it was super windy and cold so we didn't stick around long! Very beautiful, though!

Isaac playing a 'tuba'

After our hike we went back to the hotel to take a little rest. Jacob and I hung out in the lobby drawing pictures while Isaac took a nap. Then we went to the lake to go kayaking, but it was awfully windy and the boys were just really wanted to swim so that's what we did. Well, they did. It was way too cold for us big people!

The boys did great in the car both on our way out and on the way home. Of course, there were little arguments and some whining, but overall, I think they were good little travelers.

Very fun vacation!