Summer Fun

So I knew that with a new baby right in the middle of summer meant that we would really be hunkering down and digging in for the summer to hibernate from the heat.  I have to talk the kids into going outside to even play in the pool most days.  And then it sometimes only lasts for a half hour or so.  I am really lucky in that my kids are at a perfect age and they play REALLY well together.  They pretend that they are kitty cats, they build legos, they play stuffed animals and they play with their plastic animals most of all.  The best investment ever for my kids has been hitting all the thrift stores for plastic animals and dinosaurs.  They love them.  However, I told myself that I was going to try to do something fun with my kids each and every day.  Something we can do that is maybe a little more special than a normal day and something that I can do with them to make sure they are getting mommy time.  We have gone to the library for lego party, and once for craft time.  We have had a swimming party and a date at the water park. 

Then one day I decided that my kids needed super hero capes.  Charles likes cartoons and so they have been exposed a little to batman, spiderman, and the other day I watched the old superman movie.  Since this they have been pretending that their blankets and towels are capes.  Then they walk up to each other and say, "Superman, I missed you" and give each other hugs.  I can't for the life of me figure out why this is associated with superman, but they do it almost every time.  So I let my kids pick fabric from my way too big of a selection and looked up a design from some tutorial online and off we went.  We finished them in a day even with a nursing newborn.  Each one took less than an hour probably.  It was very nice of them to pick fabrics that didn't need to be hemmed!