Wow, so I meant to write a blog entry about the summer, but that was like on August 15 and now it is August 24. I went ahead an posted it just now, although it was not a complete posting. Gotta at least give me some kudos for trying!

The boys have two weeks left of summer vacation, although we made sure to fill their time with various classes. fun activities, and outings. We only took one trip, which was down to San Diego to Legoland and the Scripps Aquarium, which is part of UC San Diego. Brennan attended a one month Academic camp in July, took a one week Science camp, which he loved, and now the boys are in a two week, two day cooking class. Elden had pretty much been in his Tiny Tots class the entire summer, which was three days a week. This week they have the two days of cooking class left and then next Friday they go back to school. I am looking forward to Brennan staying in class until 2:30 and Elden will be attending preschool 5 days a week in the mornings. LA county has this great county funded preschool for 4-5 year olds for residents. You don’t have to be financially qualified either and it is free. The one that Brennan attended when he was in preschool was funded by cigarette tax money. I’m not sure Elden’s preschool is funded by, but I am so glad that he will be going everyday. Brennan is also still taking drawing and painting classes, which he thoroughly enjoys. I even bought him a nice sketch journal, you know the ones with the hard black covers, which he draws in quite often. I was thinking to enroll Elden in soccer, but I am not sure if I have already missed the deadline. Brennan pretty much does not express much interest in sports, and although he played basketball for two years, I am not sure we will be enrolling him again. Early on, I really was enthusiastic about getting him to play every sport, just so he can have the exposure, but it has really been a struggle, so I have sort of given up on trying to force it upon him. Elden does show some interest and has even been asking a few to hit baseball with him, so perhaps I will enroll him in T-ball, if we are already too late for soccer. Also, Elden learned how to swim within a month. Having a swimming pool does have it’s privileges. I was going to sign him for swimming classes over the summer, but the classed had filled up, so then we just decided to let him start swimming without his life jacket. I will have to start teaching him the actual swim strokes though, although he has been practicing kicking.

I do have to say that the summer has really passed by so quickly, but overall it has been a good one. Gonna wrap this one up.

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