Summer Boating Fun

fishing with Mr A.

away they go!

(getting ready to go tubing)

We are fortunate that we have really close friends that live close by and happen to have a pool along with a pontoon boat. We spend lots of time with them in the summer months. Last weekend we went over there for some boating fun and ran into our other friends The P's that also live on the same lake. They have a speed boat and do lots of skiing and tubing with their almost 6 and 9 year old boys. Well Izzy decided that she wanted to go for a ride on their boat to go pick up the boys and left us on the pontoon.(shocking because normally izzy is pretty clingy espeically around people she doesn't see often like our friends the P's) So away she went. When we came up by them they shouted that izzy wanted to go tubing!!! This made me very nervous and DH a little nervous and he offered to go with her...to which Izzy said NOPE, she wanted to go with Will the P's 9 year old. So my brave little girl hopped right on the tube and away they went! I was shocked!!! She had a blast and said she wants to do it all the time. DH grew up on a lake and said that he didn't even tube at 4! We also had some fun fishing, which izzy seems to like as well this summer.

I really am enjoying Izzy at this age. She is so funny and a joy to be around...i just wish i could slow it all down! She is almost 4.5....how did this happen????

I love Michigan summers!!! If only they lasted a bit longer.

End of the Year Preschool Picnic

(chilling for a few with her buddy Hannah)

fun at the spray park

(Mrs Sian)

(Mrs Molly)

walking with her buddies Hannah and Ava

I can't believe Izzy's preschool year is already over (well almost, she has one more funday friday on friday but her M/W preschool is over). She has done really well at our local Y preschool..they started the year with about 7 kids and by the end of the year I think there were 15. Before going to school izzy did not know most of her letters and couldn't write her name. Now she knows most of her letters and can write Izzy fairly well...sometimes she still has trouble with the Y. She has learned tons of songs, went swimming every week and the last session intead of just free swim she did swimming lessons. I am totally kicking myself for not taking advantage of that all year. She has met couple of good friends. Her two favorite little girls Ashlyn and Hannah are both just about a year older than she is. Towards the end of the year she has gotten to get along well with Ava as well who along who is Hannah's bff since they have basically grown up at the Y.

Today was the end of the year picnic at the petting farm and it was so sweet to see Izzy play with her little friends, some of the girls fight a bit over each other but all in all they were very sweet. It was also sweet to see izzy run up and give her teacher a hug considering lately they have had to pull her off of me. For what ever reason she has been in a very clingy stage lately and cries at drop off...for a whole 2 mins until i am gone. Oh well. We had great picnic and i got to know some of hte moms even better than I had. Some of them were planning to go to the spray park right after the farm (hannah and ava's mom along with another little girl and her mom)..so after the school function izzy and i ran home to change and headed back to the park to join her friends. She had an absolute blast! It was such a change over last year, when she was pretty hesitate. This year she ran all through everything and didnt' stop. Hannah, Ava and Izzy are all only children...which is so rare! I exchanged phone numbers with them today so hopefully we can continue to get the girls together this summer.

Izzy will go to a different preschool, through our school system next year, and her little friends will be moving on to kindergarten. I can only imagine how much Izzy will change over the next year. I really wish most days i could slow her down. My baby is growing up too fast!!!!