{"id":1263,"date":"2009-07-31T21:54:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T05:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2009-07-31T21:54:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T05:54:13","slug":"fun-filled-days-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Fun Filled days of July"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the 4th of July parade, they handed out some kid newspapers. Along with some very nice coupons for Cold Stone and the local miniature golf place, they had a calendar of things to do everyday of July. I think we did 21 of the 31 ideas. Here they are in no particular order:<\/p>\n

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\nGraham cracker day. They suggested you take a graham cracker and spread cream cheese on it. Then you add your favorite fruit or other topping for a mini cheese cake. We got a little creative and boy were they GOOD!!<\/p>\n

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\nChocolate day. They suggested making a word search with different candy bars. We made chocolate pudding instead!!<\/p>\n

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\nNational Peach Month was in July. They suggested reading James and the Giant Peach. We ate peaches instead (we like food around here!!)<\/p>\n

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\nHot dog day. They suggested you play a game of baseball (which we did on a different day). We ate hot dogs instead.<\/p>\n

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\nThe kids LOVED make a scrapbook page day. They did a great job. <\/p>\n

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\nMovie Night was fun too. They suggested making popcorn. We made Grandma Thompson’s marshmallow popcorn. It was wonderfully good as was the movie.<\/p>\n

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\nStay cool day. We ran through the sprinklers. The kids had a great time and the grass got watered!<\/p>\n

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\nNational Picnic month was in July too. We had a picnic at the park with sandwhich’s, watermellon, homemade lemonade (from “make lemonade” day) and girl scout cookies. It was fun and relaxing. The perfect way to spend an early evening.<\/p>\n

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\nHa! Ha! Headlines. The kids did so good with this. Even Scott and I got addicted. It was a fun game. <\/p>\n

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\nWrite a letter to a friend or relative in another state. That was fun too. Each of the 3 oldest kids chose someone and wrote a letter. I guess mom and dad should have done it too.<\/p>\n

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\nMake a difference to a child month. I just love how all the older siblings LOVE to read to their younger siblings. We are blessed with a family of readers! I am so glad.<\/p>\n

Some of the other things we did that either 1-I didn’t get a picture or 2-getting a picture really wouldn’t have worked:<\/p>\n

-Lay on a blanket and do moon watching and star gazing
\n-How many stars can you count in a minute
\n-Bastille Day. We wore the French colors and learned French words
\n-Cow appreciation day…..we ate beef!!
\n-Mosquito Day. We got rid of all of our standing water
\n-Lemonade Day. The kids made TONS of lemonade.
\n-Make fruit juice ice trays. The kids did that too…..with the lemons!
\n-Vanilla ice cream topped with strawberries and blueberries
\n-Look at pictures on the internet of the local 4th of July parade
\n-Celebrate Amelia Earhart’s birthday. The girls both wrote reports about her. They weren’t too happy about this activity….<\/p>\n

It was a fun month full of fun things to do. Alix was the big pusher for the events and I’m glad she was. At one point we were a little behind on our days and she called a meeting. She hung up signs and made assignments. It was very cute and very fun! She is such a good organizer. We are so lucky to have her in our family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the 4th of July parade, they handed out some kid newspapers. Along with some very nice coupons for Cold Stone and the local miniature golf place, they had a calendar of things to do everyday of July. I think we did 21 of the 31 ideas. Here they are in no particular order:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}