The Lawson Family: Summer Camps, Baseball and Shoes, Shoes, Shoes

What a busy summer! It's half over and I can't believe it! Evan started the summer off by going to Camp AdFUNture, a day camp that lasted for a week. This week, he's going to Sport Fun Camp, and he's having a blast. They get to play kickball, basketball, whiffle ball, dodgeball, hockey, volleyball and lots of other games all day. He will do one more camp before we go on vacation in August. During his last camp, he'll get to collect insects, go hiking, go fishing and learn to use a bow and arrow! When he gets home from these camps in the afternoons, he is busy swimming, riding bikes and playing with his friends. Then on Monday evenings, it's off to baseball practice and on Wednesday evenings, games. His little friend Keira told me two days ago that Evan asked her to be his girlfriend and that she said yes. After that she asked me if that made me her grandma. Then she told me not to worry because they would be getting a divorce in a few days...

Lauren is a little lady on the go, and doesn't mind one little bit. She gets up extra early to eat her breakfast every morning and ride along to take Evan to his summer camps. Then she and I hang out for a while and play. During her nap times, I work. Then we go get Evan from summer camp and come home for our evening activities! She just goes with the flow! She says mama, dada, hot, baaa like a sheep and barks like a dog. She points to everything and wants to know what it's called. She can say and point to eye and mouth, and we're working on ears and nose. Also, her FAVORITE word to say is shoes. SHE LOVES SHOES. She loves them so much that she wants to wear more than one pair at a time. She even wants to wear them over her footed pajamas. She wants to wear shoes all the time. If she hears you say shoes, she will go get hers and bring them to you to put them on her. She loves to be outside. It doesn't matter what she's doing, if it's outside, she's good to go. If you are sitting on the sofa, she will come and take your hand and guide you to the front or back door, wherever she wants to go. And if you don't take her outside there will be much pouting, stomping and smacking the door to let you know how unhappy she is.

The funniest thing happened today...Lauren did some business in the car on the way to pick Evan up from Sport Camp. She and I were waiting by the gym for him to finish up with a dodgeball game and I was so afraid the other parents would wonder why I had her in there smelling so badly. Anyway, after Evan got in the car, he said that it smelled like someone was baking cookies in there. He kept saying it the whole way home. It smelled like cookies were baking in the car and it was making him hungry. I didn't have the heart to tell him it was his sister who just pooped her pants.

Ev and I hiking on a trail during the camping trip we took in mid-June...

Lauren spent a lot of the trip in just her diaper. I have never in my life been camping when it was so hot, humid and a breeze could not be found anywhere. At night, it poured each of the three nights we were there. The sound of rain hitting the tent continuously all night long for three nights almost drove me insane.