The Lester Family: 2010

So....obviously it's been awhile because it took me three attemps to log into blogger, I could not remember my passcode! Not only have I neglected our blogsite, but my journals and scrapbooks too. The only thing I find time to update on a daily basis is Facebook and I'm pretty sure the girls won't have access to look back at those posts 20 years from now. Time to get back into this and keep our friends and family, near and far, updated on what we are doing!!!

We have been busy. Very busy. Rachel and Annie have been enjoying the summer and it feels like we are packing the car up nearly every weekend to go somewhere. We have to get out and enjoy summer before winter hibernation.

Rachel finished her school year as a first grader and is looking forward to a new teacher and new friends in the fall. She's enjoying Camp Wapsi this week and tonight is the overnight stay. Hopefully they will have calm weather this year. She's also enjoying a wolf spider that my co-worker found and kept for her. Not only is it one HUGE spider, but she's also carrying a few dozen baby spiders on her back. We have decided to keep it for now but soon we'll have to let her go, miles and miles from our home. Rachel's other big news is that she is getting glasses! Her teacher suggested to us that we get her eyes checked a few months ago. We found out not only does she need glasses but she REALLY needs glasses. Her doc told us that she should see a drastic improvement when she puts them on the first time. Thankfully they are insured for one year but I'm guessing we'll spend many mornings looking for her glasses and they'll be sitting out in the driveway, or on top of the car, or maybe her drawing desk.....

Annie is still Annie, totally fearless. We are currently working on potty training and we discovered the only way she'll use the potty is by putting her in a pool. Each time we've taken her swimming she's asked to get out and go potty. Go figure. I told Scott we'll just have to keep her in a swim diaper and inside of a bucket of water until she totally trained. Her speech is much better and now we can actually understand what she is asking for, or we'll have Rachel, her interpertor, make sense of it. We are gearing up for 3rd birthday next month, so excited!

All in all it's been a pretty relaxing summer. Took a trip to Chicago to see the Cubs, spent the 4th at Lake Delhi, Adventureland and enjoyed several visits to the farm. Next month we hope to squeeze in a short visit to the Omaha Zoo with the kids before school starts again. Ugh....school shopping. Yuck.

I posted a few pictures of our summer so far.