Greetings! Now that we have a couple kids learning to type and taking a lot of their own pictures, we thought it might be fun to let them be guest bloggers from time to time.

Dominic's slime

Here is Catherine's recap of the week: 
This week we studied the ocean so we did lots of ocean crafts. On Monday, we made slime. Ocean slime. Vincent got lots of slime in his hair. This week was my first week of dance. I am taking 2 2-hour classes. This week was Claire's 18-month doctor appointment. She screamed the whole time. This week we were busy photographing lego figures for our fall magazine.[coming out on September 21]. This week we discovered Claire likes nail polish. Every time I paint my nails she comes over to me, sits down in my lap, and holds her hands out.

Back to Dana:
Like Catherine mentioned, we studied the ocean, so the kids did lots of fish and ocean crafts. Here is Claire making the most of an "ocean" snack (graham crackers with blue frosting).

The kids also finished up their final track meet. This fall they will (hopefully) be doing cross-country.

The boys are signed up for flag football. Monica and Catherine started Irish dance last week (Catherine is very excited to be in the class with all the advanced dancers) and Monica is sort of/maybe/possibly taking a ballet/jazz/tap class. At any rate, she really really really wants tap shoes. I am understandably concerned about our hardwood floors though!

In other news, we redecorated Catherine's room (look for a blog post coming soon from Catherine!) and Saturday morning Vincent and I ran four miles together!