Teachingmommy: The Fun Days of Summer Vacation

Thursday, June 19, 2008

The Fun Days of Summer Vacation

I love summer vacation...I totally love every minute of being home with my baby girl. She is so easy...minus the getting into everything, the attitude and how heavy she's suddenly gotten, she is usually very happy and a joy to spend time with. She's rarely in a bad mood, she's great fun to take places and I just adore spending time with her.

We've had a busy few days together! Maelin has visited Aunt Kat and Uncle Jeff's pool for the first time (she went last year but didn't really enjoy it very much...poor thing was only 2 months old so who can blame her?) and had a GREAT time and then today we went to the Children's Museum which was fantastic!

Here is a few pictures of baby Maelin enjoying her day at the pool. She was very cautious at first but pretty soon was swimming around in her floaty by herself! What a big girl!

Here's some pictures of Maelin exploring the Children's Museum...she had a very busy time...she never stopped moving and got very angry when I tried to pick her up.

We're going back today with my sister and my two nephews who have never been there...can't wait!

2 comments:

Ann said...: She's gotten so big! And she's SO cute! It's crazy how much they become little people in a matter of a year!; June 20, 2008 at 5:37 PM
Stina said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; June 23, 2008 at 8:54 PM

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Must Read Books & Great Authors

"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" is a novel by Betty Smith first published in 1943. It relates the coming-of-age story of its main character, Francie Nolan, and her Irish-American family struggling against poverty in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. The novel is set in the first and second decades of the 20th century. The book was an immense success, a nationwide best-seller that was distributed to servicemen overseas.
"Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell. This is my all-time favorite book and you MUST read this at least once in your lifetime. It has won the Pulitzer Prize, it is available in 31 different countries and it has been hearlded as "The Great Amercian Novel"
"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult is a heart-wrenching novel about what it means to be a good parent, a good person and a good sister. Kate has had cancer since childhood and her younger sister Anna was concevied to be a perfect-match bone marrow donor for her. As Anna grows up, she struggles with how she and world will see the rights of her own body. This novel is the first book in years that had me crying. It was very well written and very enjoyable if you're in the mood for a tear-jerker.
"The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about a nomadic, deprived childhood told with the wonderment of a child who always wants to believe that Daddy will be a hero in the end and that Momma really does know best. You are enrapt reading about Walls and her siblings rifling through trash cans at school looking for food, doing the skedaddle in the middle of the night, or waiting for Dad to come home after another bender. It's a riveting story and a testament to Walls' desire to rise above a life that could have easily turned her into just another tragic headline. I really appreciated this story because of the very real probability that some of my students are living this very life.
One of my favorite authors (I have everything she's ever written) is Marian Keyes whose stories are set in Britian or Ireland. She is the internationally bestselling author of Watermelon (which is my favorite), Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, The Last Chance Saloon, Angels, Sushi for Beginners, Under the Duvet, and her latest, The Other Side of the Story. Her books have touched readers around the world, and they are now published in 35 countries and in many different languages.