{"id":12834,"date":"2018-07-16T21:46:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T02:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=12834"},"modified":"2018-07-16T21:54:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T02:54:44","slug":"summer-happenings-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=12834","title":{"rendered":"Summer Happenings (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently in the change over to summer I don&#8217;t have it in my schedule yet to sit and write anymore.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to see if I can squeeze that back in&#8230; I have seriously tried to sit down and write this post 3 or 4 times and keep getting distracted.\u00a0 Gah!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had a great start to our summer.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve had family visit, made trips to the park, eaten ice cream, set up new summer chore charts, gone for run\/bike rides, and enjoyed playing in the sprinkler.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a little bit of fun from the beginning of June&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First and foremost&#8211;Maddie learned to use the big toilet!\u00a0 Whoo hoo!\u00a0 I think that&#8217;s where I left off in my last post.\u00a0 It went AMAZINGLY smoothly.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 She had one accident early in the morning as she was just figuring things out, but then that was it.\u00a0 I can count on one hand the number of accidents she&#8217;s had since then.\u00a0 INCLUDING nighttime!\u00a0 Wowza.\u00a0 I guess she was ready!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_12847\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12847\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12847\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12847\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12847\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/potty-training-maddie-R-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/potty-training-maddie-R.jpg 768w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/potty-training-maddie-R-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">During potty training&#8211;notice her prize toy she showing you in her hands.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Kylene and Justin came to visit!\u00a0 They stayed for a few days during the first week of summer.\u00a0 They kids got to go to the pool with them, and Justin took Josiah to Valleyfair and Kylene took Chloe to Michael&#8217;s (yup, those were their requested destinations).\u00a0 We enjoyed hanging out with them and the kids loved wearing them out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_12851\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12851\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12851\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12851\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12851 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/kylene-and-justin-visit-R-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/kylene-and-justin-visit-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/kylene-and-justin-visit-R-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/kylene-and-justin-visit-R-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">all together!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12852\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12852\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12852\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12852\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12852 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hanging-out-in-the-hammock-R-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hanging-out-in-the-hammock-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hanging-out-in-the-hammock-R-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hanging-out-in-the-hammock-R-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reading on the hammock with Uncle Justin<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12853\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12853\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12853\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12853\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12853 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sisters-R-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sisters-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sisters-R-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sisters-R-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We found cute shirts at Sam&#8217;s Club that we HAD to have&#8230; hehe!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We celebrated Father&#8217;s Day!\u00a0 There were many hand-made gifts and the kids prepared a song each to sing for Tim.\u00a0 It was adorable.\u00a0 I also made him &#8220;hamburgers&#8221; out of cupcakes and brownies! Aren&#8217;t they cool looking?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12860\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12860\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12860\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/dessert-hamburgers-R-764x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/dessert-hamburgers-R.jpg 764w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/dessert-hamburgers-R-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We enjoyed ice cream on the patio!\u00a0 I know that probably doesn&#8217;t need its own bullet point, but oh, well!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12843\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12843\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12843\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ice-cream-on-the-patio-R-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ice-cream-on-the-patio-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ice-cream-on-the-patio-R-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ice-cream-on-the-patio-R-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Come back soon for Summer Happenings (Part 2)!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently in the change over to summer I don&#8217;t have it in my schedule yet to sit and write anymore.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to see if I can squeeze that back in&#8230; I have seriously tried to sit down and write this post 3 or 4 times and keep getting distracted.\u00a0 Gah! 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