Camping, 4th of July and Soap Box Derby

 The kids haven't had camp the last 2 weeks.  We went camping at O'Neil Regional Park with Ruby last week.  It was fun, but very HOT during the day.  Poor Ruby, I thought she was going to melt.  Daphne and I watched fireworks from Library Park which was a good view.  Silas and Steve watched from around the corner. 

Silas races in the Cub Scouts Soap Box derby in the Creeper.  It was a really fun event and I'm so glad he did it.  Both kids did great in their swim lessons this session and they're going to do one more session.  Daphne will be in level 3 and Silas will be in level 6.  Next week Silas has guitar camp and Daphne has art camp. 

Swimming

 We've been swimming a lot this summer.  Silas finished Level 4 lessons and is enrolled in Level 5.  Daphne is doing Level 2 this session, but she definitely could have been in Level 3.  They are both learning so fast, it inspired me to try to learn to swim also. 

Of course we've also done some more park days, we went back to Anderson Park in Redondo Beach which we haven't been to in probably a few years.  I have so many memories there of Silas as a toddler trying to navigate the little kids' playground, now he's one of the oldest kids there!  We also stopped by Baskin Robbins, the kids agreed ColdStone is "way better" :)