Fort Collins and reunion again

Yes, we returned to Colorado and Fort Collins where we will be through July as Laura and Matt are teaching and the kids participating a good part of the day in a day camp. We are here on vacation as helper outers / playmates / and adventurers.  

Our apartment complex exceeds expectations, note yard outside our ground floor apartments which are across the breezeway from each other.

And the kids have already made friends. Patt, Laura and Matt found and purchased second hand bikes for the kids and a very competitive tic tac toe was waged yesterday just outside our door.  

Luke and John Paul are a hoot to watch play and both resist coaching but take great joy when they win (in spite of themselves). Issac does well holding in his urge to help — as does Patt — well almost hold in their urge to help. Sometimes there were four hands on the board.

Matt and Laura left us with the kids for dinner and bedtime as they went shopping for supplies and an evening out. Patt had help in the kitchen — I stood on the periphery and went to check on the older kids who were engaged in outside play with friends.

After clean up, John Paul observed "there is some water on the floor" (as Gomer would have said "surprise, surprise, surprise).

We three enjoyed a dramatic reading of A Fish Out of Water. In fact I have discovered I like doing dramatic readings and have enjoyed doing them for quite sometime. I recently found some old photos that Patt took of a dramatic reading I did years ago I will have to blog about sometime.

and "First Day of Summer School Activity Special Program Whatever" for the girls got started this morning.