Croquet anyone?

Today started our Summer Fun weekly activities.  It was a little more loosely planned than I had anticipated, but we had a good day anyway.  Dakota had a friend over for awhile so we played our game of the day, croquet, with him.  The boys absolutely loved it and they played outside for at least an hour, whacking the ball with their mallets and trying so hard to get them through the little wickets!  After lunch our friends went home and we did four pages in our summer bridge workbook, which is colorful and different from what we normally do and therefore "fun" work, according to Dakota.  Then we did a Father's Day craft...an easy heart picture frame.  Fathers is supposed to be our theme for this week, but that's all the theme work we actually got in.  Afterward Dakota discovered he could do a 100 piece puzzle all by himself and he was so proud!  He and I had dinner together since Dad and Brian had football practice and then we took our novel, a new concept for Dakota, out to the deck swing.  We read eleven chapters of Kung Fu Panda 2, snuggling and giggling and then came inside at 8:45 and called it a night.  I really enjoyed my little man today (except for those 15 minutes of sass and tantrum this morning :-p).  I hope tomorrow goes smoothly as well.  We have alot on our plates all day!