Three Campers

All three kids are attending a camp this week. Paul took the boys to PMBC on Sunday afternoon. It's the first time I've not been present when any of our kids have been dropped off at camp. I always take a picture of each child with their counselor. I'll have to wait until Saturday morning to do that. Matt is Ian's counselor, and Caleb is Oliver's. I didn't accompany them on Sunday because our church had an outdoor baptismal service at 4pm, and I had volunteered to serve food from 5-6pm. It has been beastly hot out the past three days - meaning the high's have been close to 100 degrees WITH humidity. The temps are supposed to drop significantly tomorrow so I'm waiting until then to mow the lawn. Serving hot dogs for an hour in that heat was a bit more than my body could handle. I hung out inside the church (yay for air conditioning) for awhile and then asked our neighbor who was also at the event if they would mind taking Nadia home after the fireworks were over later that night. Thankfully they didn't mind doing that. I put a couple of notes in each of their suitcases, and I've been emailing the boys once a day. They print out the emails and deliver them to the campers at dinner. I can't wait to hear all about their week on Saturday morning! I'm missing my boys, but I loved camp as a child and hope they are both having an awesome week.

Nadia's two week theatre camp started on Monday. They are meeting outside at a playground, but thankfully they can use a covered pavilion which provides shade. The camp lasts from 1-5pm, and they are working on a production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Nadia is one of the dwarfs. Milo is thankful that I have been coming home during her camp. Nadia was surprised on Monday that I had Milo with me when I picked her up. I took her swimming on Monday and Tuesday evening, but tonight we're having dinner at Red Robin and shopping instead. I've tried to make this week special partially as a continuation of her birthday celebration and also since it's a "girl's week" for us while the boys are at camp. Her birthday celebration began on June 23 with the trip to Montage Mountain water park and the trampoline park with a friend. On her actual birthday (24th) we had dinner at Bonanza and she opened her gifts. Nadia had her annual physical on the 25th; our teenager is currently 5ft 1.75 inches tall. She was grateful it didn't involve any shots. I'm thankful that's the only time she goes to the pediatrician. She ate her birthday donuts and got to spend time with her cousins on the 25th, and that evening we served her birthday brownies and cupcakes from Aunt Millie. She picked red raspberries, went white water rafting, and had dinner in Jim Thorpe (using a gift card) with some cousins on the 26th. We didn't do anything birthday related on Sunday. On Monday I took her to Sweet Frog on the way to theatre camp for frozen yogurt. Yesterday I took her to lunch at Olive Garden. She had ziti al Forno, salad, and breadsticks; I had salad, breadsticks, and pasta fagioli soup.  Last night Jill, Faith, and Grace met us at our pool. We brought pizza. The girls ate and swam for about two hours. I'm not sure how late they stayed up, but we heard a lot of laughter after we went to bed. Faith's mom is picking her up around 11:00, and I'm taking the other two girls home on our way to theatre camp. I think the last birthday treat will be a hot chocolate from Dunkin tomorrow. We watched "I Still Believe" on Monday night, we're going to watch the newest episode of Chosen tomorrow night, and we're going to watch "I Can Only Imagine" tomorrow night. 

Because the boys are away, Paul and I moved the guinea pig cage to Ian's room on Sunday night so that Milo could sleep in Nadia's room. Last night Milo slept in our room since there were four girls sleeping in Nadia's room. Between the girls' laughter and Milo, I definitely didn't get a good night's sleep. I'm thankful he'll be sleeping in Nadia's room again the next three nights. We'll move the guinea pigs back to her room on Saturday as Milo can resume sleeping in Ian's room that day. Speaking of Milo, he turned 9 months old today which for a Bichon Frise means he's now considered to be an adult. The kids insist he will always be their puppy no matter how old he is. He still has accidents now and then which is rather frustrating. He peed in Nadia's room yesterday morning, for example. He still hates it when we leave him alone in his crate, but that's happening more often lately and he's gone as long as almost 9 hours in the crate without an accident.