Normal Life

I have been a bad blogger. I can't believe I haven't posted in almost two months. There just has not been that much of note going on. Life feels so normal. I even managed to make it past the month mark without worrying about how Max was doing. It has been really nice.

Max finished up at The Red Balloon in early June. It was sad to say goodbye, and will be nice when Lauren starts there in two years. It has been very hard to decide what to do for Max's school next year, but I think we have made a good decision. He will start kindergarten at a local private school in September. The classroom will be small and a neighbor's daughter will be there, so we can carpool and he will know at least one kid in his class, not that getting to know other kids has ever been a problem for him. We really haven't planned much for the summer. Instead, we have left things pretty open so that we can play it by ear. We have made many park/playground trips as well as a trip to the museum of science, the aquarium, and to grandma and grampa Richard's at Sebec Lake. Our weekends are so heavily planned already that we don't really have any free weekends until August. I have no idea how that happened.

I got Max a butterfly kit with caterpillars and we really enjoyed watching them grow. I was worried about how he would deal with them dying, but he was really pragmatic about it. He had us put them on the ground "so the bug can eat them and turn them back into dirt" which is what we did. We did release a couple of them after the first two died (they only live a couple of weeks) and got to witness one getting eaten by a bird. Got to love circle of life lessons. ;) Max found a baby turtle in the yard and helped his dad move it closer to the water (it was way up in the middle of the yard). He built it a little nest and was very careful with it.

Max has helped me do some gardening this summer, which has been nice. This is the first year where he has really been helpful rather than the opposite. Lauren, on the other hand, has more than made up for Max's helpfulness. But, Josh built a kids garden for us and I have been letting her do whatever in there. Hopefully next year, they will both be able to help out.

We are looking forward to a trip to Damariscotta for the 4th and then the next Monday, we head to MGH for a checkup and CBC. I can't believe it will have been two months.