On Monday I drove Jack to soccer practice at 9 am, and then I drove Lisbeth to work. When I got back, Kamilla and I read a bit in our books and then she watched some TV until we had to go pick Jack up from soccer practice at noon. When we got home it started to rain. To rain A LOT! My shoes which were outside were soaked :(
When it dried up Kamilla, Jack and I went for a walk to "The Chocolate Room" where Kamilla got an icecream and Jack and I got a brownie each. We went home and played a game of monopoly. For the rest of the day we just hung around at home. Kamilla and Jack learned some Danish by reading in a pixi-book. I made them dinner; chicken, broccoli and pasta, before Lisbeth and Kevin got home.
In the following week I started to see the first signs of routines. Jack had soccer practice every morning from 9 to 12, so I drove him there and picked him up. While he played soccer, Kamilla and I had fun reading, watching movies and telling stories. Tuesday became a very relaxed day, because of the temperature. The kids became drowsy and didn't really want to do anything because it was 90 degrees outside, so we played some boardgames and talked a lot, even some Danish :)
On Wednesday we went to the park when Jack got home from soccer. I played some basketball with Jack, and Kamilla was having fun at the swings and on the playground. She helped out at her school aswell, by sorting out books for the upcoming year and other small chores. We were at the park for a long time, and then we went home to have dinner.
On Thursday Jack had a playdate with his friend Marco, so I followed him over there after lunch. While he was gone Kamilla and I made a watermelon / lemonade stand, which she could set up on the sidewalk outside the house.
Every evening I went to the park and played basketball with the guys I usually play with, it is really nice to be able to play every single day with great players who are both funny and skilled.
On friday, Jack, Kamilla and I went with Kevin's parents to the beach at Long Island for the whole day. It was around 95 degrees and the water was great! We had so much fun in the waves.
In the evening we went to a restaurant all seven of us. After dinner I went to meet with another au pair from England, and we had a cup of coffee.
From Saturday to Monday the five of us went to Hamden, Conneticut to visit Lisbeth's parents.
Lisbeth's parents house was huge, with a big garden and even a basketball hoop in the driveway (which Jack and I used frequently). Hamden is a very nice city, and I got shown around a bit. We went to a mall where I got myself some bathing shorts, which I needed because we were going to a health center with a swimming pool. Here I learned that Kamilla absolutely loves to swim (She stayed in the water even after Jack and I had left to play basketball). This whole weekend was very nice, Lisbeth's parents are wonderful, can't wait to see them again soon hopefully.
The last days of summer after we got back on Monday both Kamilla and Jack had to focus on their summer homework. One of the days we went to Manhattan because of a bookshop which had a sell-out of Marvel Comics which Jack is very much into, and Kamilla wanted to look at craft-books. Afterwards we had lunch with Kevin at a very nice crepes place.
Until Thursday we spent a lot of time on their homeworks, and we did a science project involving a volcano spraying out diet coke and mentos, which wasn't a complete succes unfortunately, but it was fun doing the whole thing.
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