Cooper, Isabel, & Emma!!: September 2014

What a great summer we had. It was sort of an experimental summer as we had our regular babysitter nanny for us. She had the 3 kids for 3 days during the week. It think it was a little more work than she expected! It was a challenge to find activities that keep all 3 kids interested, specifically keeping Cooper busy so that he stayed out of trouble! The girls both took a week of gymnastics early in the summer. Isabel always looks forward to her gymnastics classes and Emma enjoyed her first round! Talk about cute! Oh my gosh, little girls doing gymnastics is the best!

They don't look too excited here, but I promise, they were!

Isabel's been doing gymnastics for a couple of years now, and it's been really fun to see her grow stronger and more confident. This summer they worked on some new tricks which was really fun.

Gumma and Gogo were so nice to treat the Quinn and Livesay kids to a trip to Burlington for Circus Smirkus! What a great show. A circus put on by kids. They were SO talented and the kids had a great time watching all the talent and tricks. Emma and Dana had a little bit of a hard time paying attention the whole time (it was quite a long show), but a great time was had by all!

Cooper was on the swim team which was SO great for him. He had practice every morning and swim meets on Tuesday and Thursday nights. I didn't think he would want to do any of the meets, but apparently that was his favorite part (I think it was mostly just the play time in between his swims)! Ultimately, his swimming improved drastically and he had a great time!

And the end of the summer was wrapped up with a special family trip to The Great Escape. It was one of the best family days we've ever had! The kids were all so well behaved. We had great weather, it wasn't too hot, but hot enough for Splash Water Kingdom to be a big hit (unfortunately we didn't have a waterproof camera, so no pictures from that). I think it was a great time to go as all 3 kids were entertained by the rides in "Timbertown" which is geared towards little kids. Pretty soon Cooper will be bored with those and I imagine we may have to split up in the future. Trying to enjoy every last minute as these kids are growing like weeds!