Summer Camp Organization

We're hitting our summer stride and finally have our camp organization pulled together! Head over to Honest to Nod to see how I help the kids avoid losing their goggles (again. and again. and again.).

Fly Away: June in New Jersey

When things get busy, mom's head tends to resort quickly to triage mode. Whatever doesn't need immediate tending to gets filed away in a mental pile somewhere. So neither Cam or I were really surprised when mom realized a few weeks ago that school was ending several days earlier than she thought. Which also meant that our June trip to New Jersey was right upon us. Not to worry -- unlike mom's lack of preparedness for the end of the school year, we have packing for the shore down to a science. Everything has its place and we all do our parts. Cam and I make sure we have our loveys and books and every single bathing suit we own. Mom takes care of the rest. Sounds fair, right?

The Greens usually convene on the east coast at Nona's house for July 4th, but this year a few of our family members are going to be traveling elsewhere and this June trip also happened to fall on mom's birthday and Father's Day. So we decided to do it up right and all get together a little earlier this year. Things didn't go exactly as planned. The weather was bizarre. It was either a perfect beach day or a monsoon. Daddy was traveling for work and was routed and rerouted all across the country. We had to modify the Green Family Olympics. Daddy eventually made it with a few hours of mommy's birthday left. BUT, in the end, we had a fabulous week full of family, friends and beach, beach, beach.

We even made it home last night with just enough time for mom to fill out our forms and scrounge together sunscreen for camp. Which starts today, obvi.

I Didn't See You at Summer School

Phew!  We rolled back into town just in time for my first day of summer camp today.  I'm not gonna lie, I'm not psyched.  I told mom several times that "I'm just gonna run away."  So, we'll see how it goes.  I went from 10-hour days at daycare to 24/7 mom time, so they are trying to ease me into this school thing.

Despite my runaway musings, I am super psyched to bring my new bento lunch box to summer camp -- its GREEN.  And I got to decorate it up with some stickers last night - it came with tons and tons of sweet stickers.  And it has lots of little compartments for my grub -- mom put my pasta, cheese, applesauce, peas and milk in it and shook it up for a little test -- so far so good (although the reviews of the "leakability" on Amazon weren't great, it was too stinkin' cool looking for mom to pass up).  And it even came with a super cool thermos that I decorated as well.  Keep this one on your list for fall - your lunch will look cool even if you refuse to eat it (which I'm pretty sure I'm going to do today).

We had an awesome time at the Shore and as soon as mom figures out a way to efficiently download and sort through hundreds of iPhone photos, we'll get up all the cool stuff we did on vacaye!