July Playdates

Ben is only gone to school/daycare 3 days of the week for the summer so we've been trying to get in lots of playdates the days he is home for July. Schools in Arizona start back up in August and most of his friends will be starting Kindergarten so we will be losing our playdate friends. Nearly all of our playdates have involved swimming. I LOVE having a pool with the kids - especially now that Ben can pretty much swim solo (with an adult supervising). We took him to 1 week of lessons this summer to work on learning strokes but he still prefers to swim under water and just using his legs. When we don't have friends over to swim with us, he will spend almost the entire time racing Maully back and forth across the pool or swimming along the bottom collecting toys. I usually have my hands full holding Mae while swimming (who also adores the pool, and loves for me to dunk her) so I haven't been taking pictures. In fact the pool pictures in this post are thanks to my friend taking pictures on a weekend playdate.
We met up with friends at Amazing Jakes and this time Ben got bored of the rides after 2 hrs and just wanted to play the games. I'm blaming it on him experiencing heart stopping rides at Disneyland making these ones too tame :)
This weekend he is off on 1 of his "Dads and Kids" camping weekend but Sam didn't bring the camera so I'm not expecting pictures. However, it's the reason I finally got to catch up on my blog (hence ALL the posts today). While Mae slept I did Enermodal work (my life these days) and while she was awake and happily playing by herself on the floor, I got caught up on the blog!!