The Rest of Summer

With only a couple of weeks to spare, we finally settled on a name for our baby number four! We made the kids play hangman to figure it out. 

 

Felix Joseph Blood. We settled on Joseph right away- It is Aaron's middle name, and you can also hit so many strong individuals from every book of scripture. Felix was much harder. I campaigned hard for Calvin, but Aaron vetoed that one when he realized it meant "little bald one." Felix was another one that Aaron vetoed after being the one to suggest it originally because it sounds kind of like "he licks blood." We had an ever expanding list of names we were mulling over. Aaron kept generating new candidates by chatting with AI and inputting all the qualifications for what we generally like in names. Felix kept coming up, but Aaron kept being against it for several weeks. I think it was the Knells who finally convinced him that no one is going to call him "he licks" instead of Felix. I'm so glad we got to a name that we both love instead of settling for something that neither of us hate!

I managed to haul my very pregnant self to a few outings for the kids. Here we are actually bowling this time! It was the most high tech bowling alley I have been too. Each player takes a selfie, and the screens put your face into the animations while you bowl. 

Elliot and Annie love drawing faces on watermelons. For a bit we also had faces on our bananas. 

Big fruit heads over here

Elliot got really into paper games for a while. Mini mini golf is a fun one where you flick your pencil through obstacle courses you draw. We also have a game where you fold paper in half and use the lead to fold cannonball dots onto the other player's spaceships. 

Isaac and I got to hang out while the older kids went to Be Well summer camp at the clubhouse. 

Annie's group was finding plastic bugs hidden in the field with those little kid bug catcher kits. Isaac and I were walking by when a little boy came up to the leader and said "I caught a real bug!" It turned out to be a TARANTULA HAWK which is a type of wasp with a sting that registers at level 4 on the Schmidt pain index scale. They are not aggressive, but definitely not a bug you want to be handling!

Isaac and I did a mini dinosaur camp to have something special for him. We read pages from our dinosaur encyclopedia then listened to songs about the dinos we were learning about. I was pretty proud of this stegosaurus craft.