Books and Basketball

Aiden wanted a book on Tigers since his hockey team was the tigers!

Luke and Liam at basketball camp.  You can see the height difference among Luke and his peers!

Basketball camp

Liam and his books.  He loves cheetahs and other cats

Luke wanted books on hockey and lions

Finn loves his smores!

Happy 4th of July from Minnesota!  John created his "hockey flag" for us to display.

Fireworks in the backyard on the 4th of July!!

Bookmarks for our reading challenge!

While the boys enjoy books and reading, we are not the best readers.  We consistently read on a daily basis, but its a struggle for the boys to really enjoy it.  If given the choice, they would much rather play outside, build with legos, ride their bikes, climb the play set, or play any number of sports all day and everyday.  This is particularly true in the summer.  I have tried many things to peak our interest in reading.  We are really trying to get in a solid 30 minutes of reading each day over the summer before we do other things like play dates, camps, playing outside, etc...Aunt Sarah witnessed our reading struggles when she visited so she and Calvin devised a reading challenge plan for us to work on this summer.  We made a trip to the library and picked out several new and fun books about sports and other topics they love.  So, here we go with our reading challenge!  The boys are most excited about the prizes.  Whatever it takes.....

Luke, Liam, and Aiden also attended a basketball camp at the high school last week.  They really enjoyed learning more about basketball and the competition among their friends.  This was Aiden's first experience with basketball and he seemed to enjoy it.  He pointed out that he doesn't like it as much as hockey and soccer, but it was pretty good.

Happy 4th of July to our family and friends!