The Manansala Family: Sisters and summertime

The summer is halfway over. I can't believe it! It has been fun and challenging. I say challenging because the girls are at the age where they are no longer content with just going to the park or hanging out at home. After being in kindergarten for a year with lots of structure, Kayleigh's favorite thing to say to me this summer is, "I'm bored!". It isn't possible to spend all day, every day at the pool. I would never get any housework done. I tried telling them that when I was little I just had to use my imagination and think of things to keep me busy. A couple of days ago my dad called right as the girls are telling me for the 109th time that they were bored and asking if we could go to the pool. I asked my dad for confirmation that he didn't plan out every day of my summers. What Papa says is always true to the girls so I thought that would help. Papa gave the girls the idea of building a fort. They were really excited about that! The next day, my dad called again, we were talking for a couple of minutes and then he says, wait....where are you? Are you at the pool? You gave in, didn't you!!! Which of course I had. The fort was great.....for about 30 minutes! But we have had a lot of fun this summer and hopefully the girls aren't too bored! They have been spending a lot of time playing together and while this does cause fights occasionally, they really have been having a good time. Quite a few times this summer, Paul and I have caught them in these sweet quiet moments, just the two of them. It is so cute to see two sisters who really are best friends. My hope for them is that they are just as close to each others as my sisters and I are.

Here the girls are coloring together. They had just gotten out of the bath and I was upstairs cleaning up. When I came down, they had moved the chairs in their playroom beside each other and were whispering to each other while sharing a coloring book. (they LOVE wearing Daddy's white shirts to bed!)