With Eve at Girls Camp this week Lex and I have been getting some serious quality time together. These kids, boy have they surprised me this summer. When Lex had camp last month and I was home with Eve for two weeks I expected to be go, go, go! I thought she would want tons of activity and playdates every day, but no, she was, for the most part, calm and content to just hang out. She spent a lot of time playing with her dolls and was happy to go places with me. We had two fairly calm and peaceful weeks.

This week, I thought Lex, my boy who can play Legos alone for hours and read by himself for the rest of the day, this week he has been full on attention demanding! He is chock full of Minecraft stories and wants to play games together and read Calvin and Hobbes out loud and go lots of places! Monday we had lunch with Alan and went to the skate park, Tuesday we had a doctor appt for him and went grocery shopping (he wasn’t very excited about either of those plans) and today we went to Quechee Gorge.

Can you guess where we are? :-)

This poor tree is hanging on for dear life!

We took off our shoes and did some wading. The water felt great!

I love this view.

He obliged me with a photo. :-)

The water is so low!

We hiked to the bottom, then back to the top to see the dam, then got ice cream. After that we played a round of mini-golf and then got lunch. By the time we got home I had just enough time to shower (sunscreen and sweat, ugh!) and then head out to pick up Eve! Tomorrow I’m taking Lex and a friend to a local rock-climbing place and on Friday he has already invited our neighbor over for some Lego Mindstorm building. I think he’s ready to get back to school. :) Despite the less than quiet week, I have been loving every minute of it! It is so nice to get one-on-one time with them occasionally, even if the primary conversation revolves around Minecraft!