Finn's Week as an Only Child.....

Checking out the very sleepy and likely nocturnal lions at the zoo

Luke at camp on the rope swing

Finn on a very hot walrus!

Finn's dinner choice and dessert!

Luke and Liam's camp cabin

Middle school boys doing what they do best.  I haven't figured out exactly what that is yet.

Camp Games

Finn and Mom

Finn and Dad

Waterslide at the Community Center pool

Bumper Cars

 I think the best week of Finn's summer was likely the week that all three of his brothers went to camp!  While he missed his brothers (at least a little), he had a ton of fun as an only child.  We went swimming, he had a playdate, we went to a new pool at the community center (where ironically I took the big boys a lot when they were younger, but have not taken Finn very much), spent a day at the zoo and an amusement park, went out to dinner at Finn's choice, and managed to squeeze in Finn's soccer and lacrosse.  It was a fun week for all three of us and much easier to juggle the schedule of one kid!  Until next summer Finn....

4th of July Fun!

Fireworks on the 4th

John's big catch

Boat Ride

Liam's big catch

Swimming in the lake

Riding on the boat with friends

John And Finn

Picking out groceries for the trip

Finn's reaction to the fireworks!

More fireworks

Finn's big catch

Chillin on the beach with our neighbors and friends, the Sargents

Family pic on the beach

Mom on skis

Dad on skis

It's been awhile since I have posted a blog!!  Summer has been off to a busy start and has kept me driving the carpool more than sitting at the computer.  We did have a nice break from hockey camp, lacrosse and soccer games, playdates, etc...over the 4th of July.  We rented a cabin at a resort about two hours north and stayed for a couple days.  We ran into some neighbors with a boat and ended up getting to spend a day on their boat which was also a ton of fun.  Before we ran in the neighbors, we rented a boat and a driver and the boys were able to ski, tube, wake board, etc...for several hours.  We all had a blast.  I haven't been on skis in over 20 years so it was fun to try it again!  The boys all got up on skis (except Finn who preferred tubing).  I am only posting pics of John and I on skis because obviously that is more remarkable than the boys.  We were both sore and tired the next day, but at least we managed to get up for awhile!  

In other news, Luke broke his toe in mid June and has had a rough couple of weeks.  Around the time the toe started getting better, he got an infection under the nail bed which was very painful and required him to be on some pretty strong antibiotics for about 10 days.  Once the infection went away, he was able to do a little more but has missed several weeks of hockey and lacrosse while trying to rehabilitate the toe.  Who knew a toe injury would be so difficult to recover from, but it has been quite challenging and likely he still has several months to go before his toe will be more or less back to normal.