summer fun

Hans has turned some kind of leaf this summer, in fact, just in the last week.  The first week, or almost two, of summer was pretty much miserable here as we all had a bad cold, not to mention the horrible weather.  This last week the weather has been better and the kids have been better too.  We started summer lessons last week with D and H both taking a gymnastics class once a week and soccer twice a week.  They LOVE both classes!  Damaris has been in gymnastics since she was almost three but the last year or so we took a break because of school.  She has missed it and loves being back.  This is her third summer playing soccer and loves that too, she's a scrapper!  Hans took a gym bin class once when he was three and it didn't go so well, let's just say he had a hard time listening and he was very distracted by another little boy in class, maybe he thought he was the teacher...  Anyway, he too begged to take a class all year and it just didn't work with the extra kids I was watching and schedules this school year.  It was so evident to me that now he is ready to be in those types of activities.  He did so good last week at the gym bin and at soccer, it's like he gets them now, not sure if that makes sense, but if you're a mom you probably understand.  Things that have come so naturally to D, haven't come quite so naturally to H, but now that seems to be different.  Like he's coming into his own, and he likes it!  He also took his training wheels off his bike this past weekend.  He had fought that for a long time.  D took her's off when she was 2!  Not kidding.  He LOVES that he has them off now and is just a little speedster and trickster on that bike.  The bad part is he is much more dangerous in this new phase of life...  For those of you that are actually taking the time to read all of this babble, I have one more funny Hans thing that happened tonight.  He insisted that he not wear a jammie shirt to bed tonight, he wanted no shirt, like dad!  :)  So cute.