This is winter?

We spent the past weekend on the beach in Manly, it was a beautiful weekend, about 70 degrees and sunny. The kids ran all over while Duey and I just laid on a blanket soaking up the rays. well duey laid down and relaxed, I on the other hand sat up watching the kids to make sure they didn't die. There were strong current warnings, but the kids were happy enough to just play in the sand. The end of term for school is tomorrow so Chesney has two weeks off. She has done such an incredible job of catching up with the other kids in her reading and is at the same reading level with the rest of the class. she loves to take her reading cards and lay them out on the floor, pick out a few and make sentences with them. It amazes me how far she has come since starting school just 2 months ago. She has a few school holiday activities planned to keep her busy and it will be nice for me to spend more time with her that we don't get to have when she is at school. Logan is taking an intensive swimming coarse during the school holiday so he will have lessons everyday for the week, we will see if he will get more comfortable with going under water.
Chesney just got a new swimming teacher and she doesn't like her, actually I am not to keen on her either. She never tells the kids they are doing well and seems to make them feel bad when they don't get it right away. i am going to watch her very closely next week and if it continues I will be requesting a new teacher. at the end of lessons yesterday instead of saying good job she said "maybe you will do better next week" not exactly the encouraging type. I have a feeling we will be changing.
The weather has been just beautiful lately and we have been spending so much time outside as possible. we spend alot of time going to the park with some other moms. Logan likes to ride all the other kids scooters so one of the other moms gave logan her sons old one. Logan loves it, he rides it everywhere, I mean everywhere--from the tv room to the kitchen for dinner- then to the bathroom to wash up after dinner- then to the toyroom. it never leaves his side.

Beautiful Manly Beach


Logan Checking out the surfer babes
Chensey kept forgetting that when the water receeds, it eventually comes back up- we ended up taking her pants off and letting her run in her underwear because of getting caught in the waves and getting wet
The beach is so long and wide with great sand to play in.
Hope you all have a wonderful July 4th celebration-- Love Kelly