barrett: 109 months old

Summer is in full swing!  Barrett is in his second week of tennis camp, and doing so well.  He won the return contest at the end of last week's camp - he returned 17 hits, the most of anyone at camp!  He's also doing swim practice every morning at 7:00 am, and just had his first swim meet of the season last night.  It lasted until midnight (ugh), and I really hope the rest won't be these 6 hour events!  The next one is Saturday, and I'm afraid it's going to dominate our entire day - and with temperatures topping 98 degrees this week, it's a long day in the sun.  Luckily, more of Barrett's summer camps (stop motion animation, Roblox development, and drama camp) are held indoors.

Ready for the swim meet (mom and dad are already tired)

Likes:  Roblox, hanging out with swim team friends, snow cones, anything airplanes

Dislikes:  backstroke and butterfly

                                    

154 months old

Britton is off to camp tomorrow!  She's really excited to go back, since the majority of the girls she bunked with last year are coming back for the same session.  She's signed up for jewelry making, leather works, piano, archery, pottery, and a host of other activities.  For the first time, horseback riding isn't mandatory, and Britton is relieved because she hasn't really enjoyed horseback riding.  I feel like the two weeks will fly by, and we'll be right back picking her up.  When Britton is away at camp, I like to take on a project for her room - she isn't there to complain that I'm messing up her room, and I can get done what desperately needs to be done.  Last year it was installing her bookcases.  This year, I'm cleaning out her closet!  I'm going to take all the clothes she never wears and put them in a box for 6 months - if she doesn't ask for them back, they are getting donated!  I also got a tower to put in her closet to hold her sweaters and sweatshirts - they take up way too much room being hung up.

Swimming is going well this year!  Britton's a natural swimmer (she didn't get it from her mother, let me tell you), and prefers freestyle over anything else.  She'll miss two swim meets while at camp, but she'll be back for the last two.  Unfortunately, missing meets means she won't be eligible for the Meet of Champs (she can't make up the point deficit), but she absolutely refuses to move her camp session because she already knows everyone in her session.  

Likes:  Nella the cat, missing two weeks of swim practice

Dislikes: packing for camp