Since Mother's day we have celebrated Mim's 16th birthday. I treated her to a field trip with her classmates to Six Flags Great America along with going out to eat and believe it or not, another dog. She has been asking for a puppy since last fall. I thought why another dog when we already have 4, but she really wanted another, and one that would be more bonded to her rather than me...most of the animals we have are really attached to me and sort of to the girls. So we picked a 7 week old blue heeler mix puppy up from a local humane society (same one we got DaVinci from 3 1/2 years ago). The puppy was way laid back, which is the only personality I would allow for Number #5. He is being spoiled silly by Mama Mim. She is amazing with him, doting on his every move and want. Mr. Zamboni will surely be spoiled rotten.
I also finally picked up our 3rd kayak, the tandem, and so we went kayaking Friday night for the first time. The girls did ok, and then again today. They did much better Today we also took Heathcliff and Einstein (they are pros at this since they use to go kayaking with me all the time pre-kids) and we also took Zamboni (new pup) so he can learn to go while he is young. I will attempt to teach Rem & DaVinci but since they are older and bigger it will be a challenge. But a challenge worth taking since there is nothing like kayaking with your family and your dogs among nature. So far the girls like it. Tuki, me, Heathcliff and Zamboni are in the tandem and Mim and Einstein are in the bigger solo and Ve is in the smaller solo that is tied to Mim's boat so she doesn't feel like she gets too far away from us. It has been fun so far and we intend to go weekly for about an hour to 1 1/2 hours at a time. We have a pond/lake about 10 minutes from us.
Saturday, we picked up Zamboni, then hung around the house, Sunday, we started real slow, then we cleaned up the garden, still need to till the second half but the till is in the shop, then we cut the grass and then went to Pam's house to celebrate Mim's birthday. Today we got up, did chores, ate, did some reading, then kayaked, then had a cook-out. Now I am blogging, Mim is studying, Ve and Tuki are playing outside with the neighbor girls. It has been a real sweet weekend all around. I also did manage to plant the squash (summer and butternut) and the pumpkins (knuckle, jack and pie) on the side of the garden that is tilled.
The girl's have 8 days of school left, I have nine. We then have one week left, and then I start my internship and the girls will attend summer school. Mim in Panther fitness, Ve in remedial math, and Tuki in the Invention enrichment class. All the girl's will have swim lesson again for one month, plus softball for them as well. Mim also has a four day endurance running camp the week before summer school. We will all have off of all activities by the 3rd week of July. So about one month of no activities before the next school year...finally.
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