We are having a really good summer. Despite my very high levels of anxiety-around-our-looming-massive-lifestyle-altering-move and my record-breaking-long-To-Do-lists, we are somehow, the five of us, tighter than ever. And I think the bambinos are — for reasons not entirely clear to me — happier than they’ve ever been. If I had to say what the themes of this summer have been for the three younger J-Ms, I’d say that this summer has been characterized by two big things for them.
1. For Kyle and Owen– Basketball. These guys love sports. And they play a lot of them. But they seem, at least lately, to be really focusing in on basketball as their sport of choice. I’m not sure they would list it above all others (we purposefully never ask them to rank order their favorite sports, and are actively trying to not pigeonhole them early), but if hours-spent-per-day is any indication, basketball is far and away their current sport of choice. These two boys have been playing basketball all summer long. All day, all night, every day, rain or shine, it is basketball basketball basketball. When it is too hot outside they are playing it in the basement in a little hoop they have set up on a door down there. But most of the time they are playing it the driveway. And when I say “most of the time,” I mean– literally, they often wake up, get dressed, and go straight out the door to shoot hoops. Most of the time, most days, you will find them playing basketball in the driveway. Today, I could not believe it– I brought them home after picking them up from basketball camp (they are currently in the second session this summer), and after 7 hours straight of hard-core basketball, they got out of the car, immediately picked up a basketball, and started scrimmaging one-on-one in the driveway. I kid you not. It was about 100 degrees out, they were drenched with sweat, and they were out there playing basketball after having been at basketball camp all day long. I went out there with my camera today and here are some of the pics~~
Oh so sweet summer!! Glad you’re all having a really good summer! Thanks for sharing it with us
– Kate
Summer as summer should be for kids! Outdoors and exhausted. It’s all good!
Heather, if you ever figure out how to bottle their energy , will you pretty please send me some?
Sounds like a great summer!
I LOVE their dreads in these pictures!!
Asiaha– Thank you!! We had just re-twisted the day before I took those photos, so they are looking nice and tight and fresh! Thanks for noticing! ~Heather
You are welcome! They look awesome as usual, great job!
Looks like summer fun to me! Beautiful kids!!