Beautiful summer weather recently!  Low eighties, not humid, perfect.  The kids are having a blast every day in the pool, riding bikes, going for walks, going to the park, sheep pasture, playing in the sandbox, on the swingset, and finding bugs, worms, butterflies, frogs, and attempting to keep them as pets (mostly Kaelin and Aidan in the last category!  Kaelin had a couple of odd looking bumps on her face the other day and I was convinced it was from her kissing the frogs she finds (really...)...luckily the bumps went away and I've advised her to stop kissing frogs, there will undoubtedly be too many of those when she gets older!!). Ainsley is a little water bug, always wanting to be in the pool, but she has no fear at all which is really scary, she wants to jump in on her own all the time, so we have to watch her like a hawk.  Keeley is heading into her last week of the kid's theatre program at the Orpheum Theatre.  She was interested in the program because the play they were going to do is "High School Musical", but the small kids (Keeley's group K-2) are focusing on some short  Aesop's Fables plays and will be "extras" in the bigger play.  We parents were told at the beginning to have the talk with our kids about not everyone getting the parts they want, but despite that Keeley was initially disappointed with her mouse part in one of the plays ("mice are yucky and disgusting" she cried).  She's fine with it now and is really doing an awesome job. Her instructor always comments how well she knows her lines (they have to study them every night), how smart she is and how she takes direction so well.  We're looking forward to the presentation this Friday.  We went to the beach last weekend, our first opportunity this summer so far. The kids loved it, but there was way too much yucky red seaweed/algae. The kids didn't mind but we'll be skipping Newport next weekend and probably head to the Cape.  We were thinking about a quick trip to Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard one of these weekends, but as we quickly approach last August, we don't want to deal with the Obama crowds on the Islands.  Maybe we'll just have to buy a boat like Aidan has been begging us for so we travel around as we please...