week full of fun

The boys have had so much fun this week, I figured I'd share a little of what we've been up to.

First, we lofted J's bed over our spare queen-sized bed (from this time forward to be known as Zoo Boy's bed -- he'd never actually slept in it before this week, but he's there now....with me next to him for the most part, but still, it's HIS bed). The boys have been very excited about sharing a room and their great "new" bedroom. (They also helped The Map Man put together 3 new pieces of furniture for that room.)

We went to visit some friends who live on a dead-end road, and the kids biked and scootered up at the "circle" at the end of the road, then played in their nice yard all afternoon.


We also biked quite a bit at home, on our road, and played quite a bit in our yard. The weather has been amazing this week!





On Friday, the boys had some friends over for some water play in our wading pool, as the temperatures hit record highs across the state. Look how nice and clean and refreshing that water looks. Soon after this picture was taken, the four of them started methodically filling the pool with sand from our big pile of sand. It stopped looking so appealing pretty quickly after that....

We topped off the week with a bunch of hiking, letterboxing, and State Park/Forest adventures, which I'll be blogging about in the coming days. But here's a quick shot of my guys (all 3 of them) on top of the observation tower at Soapstone Mountain (part of Shenipsit State Forest) in Somers, CT. We stopped there on our way home from adventures elsewhere in Connecticut today.

Fun week! And that's not even counting a family birthday party, dinner at a restaurant, a couple different playgrounds, music class and baking.... Then again, it always seems to be a fun week. Gotta love that about homeschooling!