Bucket List Part Deux

Just after my Bucket List post, I read an article in a parenting magazine, "Savor the Last Drops of Summer". Basically, a list of things you should manage to do this summer. Many we did, many we did not.

So now a "Bucket List 2011" of all the things we didn't do this year:

• Visit the seashore (we did make it to a lakeshore this year)
• Lie in a hammock
• Jump off a diving board
• Make a fort
• Find a rainbow
• Stargaze
• Look for cloud formations
• Take a nap on the lawn
• Search for sea glass
• Skip rocks
• Dig for worms
• Set up a lemonade stand
• Put on a play
• Make mud pies
• Tell ghost stories
• Build a sand castle
• Learn to do a cartwheel
• Play kickball
• Do the hula
• Go on a scavenger hunt
• Build a box car

It's a good starting point at least. It seems the simple little things get missed the most!!

Bucket List

When summer vacation started on May 27th, I didn't ask Trev what he wanted to do this summer. In retrospect, I should have. I didn't ask Blake either, but that is probably for the best!!

Regardless, I tried to plan a fun summer that all three kids would enjoy and that would take advantage of all the free time we would have. After all, this fall brings full-time school and that restricts the activities that we can participate in (or at least, when we can participate in them).

As I look back, here's a few of the things we can check of this summer's bucket list:

• participate in soccer league (Trev)
  
• attend graduation party
• attend mommy's volleyball games (and stay up and out past bedtime!)
• go to lots of friend's birthday parties and celebrate two of our own
  
• go to new village park grand opening, play in soccer tournament, win our first game, play in the rain, and jump in huge mud puddles
• learn all about reptiles at the library
• go to lots of new parks and a bunch of old favorites
  
• go to a MLB baseball game (not the Cubs!-at the kids request)
• visit Grandpa
• learn how to make cool scientific reactions using basic household materials (vinegar, baking soda, m&m's and more) (more fun at the library)
  
• go camping and get REALLY dirty
• go strawberry picking
• make LOTS of strawberry and raspberry jam
• go to summer camp
• learn to swim (Trevor!!!!)
• practice reading
  
• spend the night at Grandma's
• go to the zoo
  
• watch at least two sets of fireworks, and set off some of our own
  
• participate in t-ball league (T & B)
• learn about dinosaurs at the library (and show off our knowledge - good job Blake!)
• attend Zoo camp and be a "Junior Zookeeper" for the day
• go to the pediatrician and not get shots (Trevor! Izzy still had to get shots!)
• survive a week with Mommy gone on vacation (they survived, but there are scars!)
• go to the movies
• go to Great America
  
• go to the farmer's market
• go to the 'skyscrapers' (what the boys call going downtown) to various museums
  
• go fishing with Grandpa
• make home-made ice cream

Whew!! Part of me wants to find pictures for lots of those items to put up here, but if I do that this post will never go up. So for the moment, I'm posting this sans pictures. Maybe once school starts again I will get better about blogging more regularly. But I'm not promising!!