Updates and FUN STUFF!!!

Well, it has been about 6 weeks since Super Girl's diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes. In that month we have been to a class, seen her new Endocrinologist, and changed insulin dosing 4 times! In fact, I think we are due for another change today! I will be calling the Juvenile Diabetes Nurse line to report blood sugars for the past few weeks, which usually means a change is coming! Just when you get your dosing schedule memorized, it changes! Oh well, I guess it's a good review for my math skills :) Anyway, things are slowly getting back to "normal". Summer is coming quickly (1 1/2 weeks away) and I am DREADING EVERY MINUTE OF IT!!! I wish we were on a year-round schedule where breaks were 3 weeks instead of 3 months! I have been trying to figure out how to keep everyone sane and safe throughout the summer, and I found an idea HERE to have activity jars with strips in it that each child gets to pick one for the day.So I have been assembling activities, places to go, things to eat etc. There are 81 days of summer break(including weekends) So I am trying to come up with 81 things for each jar. I am also making "homework" pages for both kids that they must do BEFORE we get to the fun! Anyway, here are some of the ideas I have come up with so far:

1.     Go on a photo scavenger hunt

2.     Make a masterpiece with sidewalk chalk

3.     Go on a bike ride

4.     Make a treasure map and go on a hunt

5.     Make your own Memory game and play

6.     Build a bird house

7.     Write and illustrate your own story

8.     Make a crayon/watercolor painting

9.     Write some thank you notes

10. Create artwork using your hand/footprints

11. Make old coins shiny w/ salt and vinegar

12. Play Red Light/Green Light

13. Play “Hot and Cold”

14. Play Hide and Seek

15. Make an obstacle course and time yourselves

16. Play Hopscotch

17. Make a collage of your favorite things

18. Make an ABC book

19. Go on a color hunt

20. Make masks from paper plates

21. Fingerpaint with pudding

22. Wash cars and bikes

23. Learn some origami

24. Have a pretend “drive-in” theater

25. Create puzzles from drawings/photos

26. Play a board game

27. Draw while blindfolded

28. Make slime

29. Play musical chairs or freeze dance

30. Play charades

31. Build a fort

32. Straw and cotton ball race on the kitchen table

33. Make a family tree

34. Do something nice for someone else

35. Memorize a scripture

36. Do a science experiment

37. Do the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment

38. Make up a secret code and write notes

39. Write messages with invisible ink

40. Go to a park

41. Check out books at the library

42. Go to the Church History Museum

43. Go to the Aquarium

44. Go to the Gateway fountains

45. Go to Liberty Park

46. Go to Raging Waters

47. Go to Discovery Gateway

48. Buy 3 things at the Dollar Store

49.Go to Jordan River Parkway

50. Go to Ogden Treehouse Museum

51. Go to Museum of Natural History

52. Go to Splash pads (Herriman)

53. Go to Olympic park

54. Go to Thanksgiving Point

55. Go to Clark Planetarium

56. Go to Timpanogos Cave

57. Go to Temple Square

58. Go to Wild West Jordan Park

59. Go to Boondocks

60. Go bowling

61. Go to Great Salt Lake

62. Bake a cake from scratch

63. Make Rice Krispy treats

64. Make indoor smores

65. Make popsicles

66. Make fruit kabobs

67. Bake cookies (and deliver them)

68. Bake cupcakes and decorate them

69. Make Muddy buddies

70. Make Smoothies

71. Take a picnic somewhere

72. Make sugar cookies and decorate

73. Try a new recipe together

74. Make brownies

75. Make an edible necklace—cheerios, fruit loops, etc.

76. Eat Graham Crackers and frosting

77. Use candy melts to make suckers

78. Eat at Arctic Circle

79. Eat at McDonalds

80. Eat at Subway

81. Eat at Burger King

As you can see it's a mixed bag of places to go, things to do, and what to eat. We also have our Pass of All Passes this summer, so we can go to Seven Peaks and Trafalga several times each.

This week, Super Girl has fun activities at school each day. Today is pet day where kids can bring their real pets, or a stuffed animal, or a drawing of a pet they would like to have. Since we have a fish, we decided to take a stuffed animal pet-the BIGGEST stuffed ELEPHANT we have! Tomorrow is picnic day where they get to bring lunch and play on the "big kids" playground equipment! Wednesday is bubble day where they clean the classroom and play with bubbles outside after they are done. Thursday the kids get to eat lunch in the cafeteria and after go to a"drive in movie" with cardboard box cars they have made. We finished Super Girl's today! She named it "Rainbow Racer" because we used EVERY color of paint we had!

 Isn't it awesome! Well, that's all for now!