Tuesday, July 18, 2017

last bucket list item

Our last "normal" week, last week, in Illinois and CJ was able to get his Harry Potter marathon in. He was soo looking forward to this. He didn't do it until Friday and all week long he kept telling us how many days till the marathon and he was almost giddy asking Karlee if she was excited too. He was up around 6:30 and the marathon started promptly as 7. Before it all began CJ asked if I would bring them their meals since they couldn't leave the basement. I agreed. Mason was stoked! He wanted his meals downstairs as well. I told him the only way that would happen is if he was actively watching before it was meal time. Mason is under the blue blanket in the bottom left corner of the picture. He ate breakfast down stairs.

Do you see the rack of clothes left of the TV? That's CJ's costumes for the marathon. He probably changed 2-3 times for each movie. He loved everything about this marathon. They finished around 2:15 in the morning. I went to bed around 11. Karlee fell asleep a few times but not for long periods. CJ made it though it all! I'm sure he'll do this again one day. Mason watched until mid morning then he went down again at 11 when I said it was bedtime. He was downstairs with them watching his own shows from his phone. He did not want to go to bed before them.


Then Saturday after more cleaning and organizing we had a respite at Otter Cove for the last time. Karlee and Carson had a blast together. They both love to swim. Mason was ready to go home long before the rest of us, as usual. But we all did the lazy river together a few times, we rode tubes down the yellow slide and even played volleyball. We will miss this park and rec district and their pools very much.

Saturday night while on my walk with the dogs, talking with Brian on the phone, I came across this lone deer. He wasn't spooked at all. It was a surprise.


Also this past week, Carson lost a tooth. He had an upper right molar that he noticed was loose on Wednesday. It kept bothering him so he pulled it out on Thursday morning. I think he's our only child that has pulled out his own teeth. :0)

Our first summer in Illinois Carson wanted to visit a new park every week. I never shared the last park we visited back in 2014 so I thought I'd share it now in our last summer here in St. Charles.

This is Island Park in Geneva.

 We had a picnic then the kids went and played in the water.





 Only late in the summer is anyone able to walk out to these rocks. The rest of the time the river is much higher.

The boys had a lot of fun.

 It's a beautiful park!



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