Back to homeschooling/summer fun

I have been avoiding this site because I wanted to write all about my granddaughter's birth, but I just don't have the time, so one day I will, but for now, I'm getting back on task with daily thoughts and homeschooling/summer fun ideas.  Yesterday was a gorgeous, breezy late spring day that came after a week of high humidity and heat indices over 100.  I let Dakota do his thing in the morning and then we had lunch on the deck and broke out our summer bridging book, some reading books and his journal.  We chatted, worked, read and he played for hours out there, enjoying the afternoon.  I freecycled a single person mini trampoline that is now in his play area and in between working he would stop, run over to it, and jump about 15 to 20 times.  He loves getting out his energy that way.  What a find!  After a simple dinner of open faced roast beef and french fries for us and pbj and pudding for him, Daddy and MomMom joined us and we used our Groupon for 2 free movie tickets and 2 free medium popcorns at the Hollywood Theater in Arbutus to see Kung Fu Panda 2.  It was cute and, of course, Dakota loved it.  He was chopping and kicking for the rest of the night!  Afterward we went to the huge new Arbutus library to show MomMom and Daddy since they had never been.  Dakota showed them around and gather 21 books in the process that he just had to have....not "kid books" he was quick to point out, but big kid books (Level 2 readers) and even a Kung Fu Panda 2 chapter book!  When he had given everyone a demonstration of how he could do the computerized check out all by himself, we headed home and rode down to the park with high hopes to see the deer, herons and other small critters that sometimes show themselves there. We were rewarded with one deer, one heron and 30 minutes of quality, laid back family time.  A very tired little boy was happy to get on his pjs, look through his stack of books and drop into bed a little while later.  All in all, I considered it a very successful day!