Tequila Hoedown!

 Fun in the Air Chair!

 From the balcony

Ukulele Jam!

Lunch With Great Granny

Water Fun

Miles at his swim lesson- best face ever!

Mark doing kicks

 Fishing at Carpenter's Brook Fish Hatchery

Second Week in July

 Rainy Day?  Make a Crash Pit!

 Sunny Day?  Go swim in someone else's pool... and sundathe!

 Good Times with Old Friends at Marcellus Park

 Me n the Peanuts!

 Tiger Lily

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to change.  It's not."- The Lorax

First Pics of Baby!!

Josephine Ada Krahl

July 6, 2015

7 lbs 5 oz

Adirondack Fun

 Monkey Bars at the Lodge

 View from Gothics

 View from Gothics

 View from Lower Wolfjaw

 Rock Climbing at King Philip's Spring

 Mark on the slab

Out to the Ball Game

 The movie stars are ready to go

 I caught the hot dog!

 very serious ... 

Running the bases after the win!

Summer Catchup

 Bike Hike in Onondaga Lake Park

 Green Lakes State Park

 GLSP

 Fishing

 Fireworks

Taking on the Lower Great Range

Happy Birthday USA!

The Cross-Country Trek

1. Cincinnati, OH
2. Chicago, IL
3. Cedar Rapids, MI
4. Lincoln, NE
5. Denver, CO
6. Canyonlands National Park, UT
7. Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
8. San Diego, CA (I later considered Joshua Tree National Park, and then on to San Francisco as a better alternative, not pictured)

First Days of Summer Vacation

Bike hike in Onondaga Lake Park

 All the way to Sweet Treats!

Green Lakes State Park

Loving the Beach! Glad we got to do these things before the "rainy season" started

Kindergarten Screening

This is the last hurdle. The final formality before beginning school.  Although I did not have the same nerves as when my first went through screening I was still cringing at the thought of how Miles would behave behind closed doors.

True, one-on-one he is usually more responsive so it was the best case scenario for him to showcase his skills.

After an hour and fifteen minutes a teacher brought him back out to me and asked if I could sit down with her for a few minutes.  This is what they did for every kid that came out so I wasn't surprised.  Specifically what he needs to work on over the summer are:
- writing his name
- copying shapes
- cutting skills
- rhyming

The second page of the screening printout was devoted to speech and language skills. And there were no notes there.  No notable struggle at all in that area.  I was so relieved to see results from his speech intervention!

Lately Miles has become extremely difficult.  Lying, stealing, sneaking around, and deliberately disobeying.  It is very hard to get him to sit down and accomplish anything constructive, especially now that I have zero planning time.