I have been making up some weekly worksheets for the boys to do during the summer.  It is a way to have Logan do a little reading, math and now some piano practice, and be motivated.  The boys do enjoy getting the rewards; we had gone out for ice cream and had a pizza dinner out.  The new reward was to watch a movie, and today was a perfect day for it as Stuart was going to help Scott out at the Obon.  The boys and I were planning to see Inside Out and they were excited.  We arrived at the theater at a good time.  We walked around a bit, got us a big bucket of popcorns and found the perfect seats in the theater.  We enjoyed watching the movie, and the boys stayed focused the entire film.  As we walked out, we talked about and shared what we liked from the movie.  The timing worked well, so I decided to take the boys to visit daddy at Obon.  We found parking relatively easy and walked a couple of blocks into the festival.  The boys were happy to see Stuart behind one of the food court booths, and Connor could not wait to talk about the movie we watched.  Then we left daddy to check out the festivities.  We started at the children area and the boys had fun playing at the carnival games.  They both won some little toys, a toy snake, and tiny stuffed bears; and they were good to share their loots.  Then I saw the Taiko drummers getting ready, and the boys were interested to watch.  They also surprised me by how quickly they found a spot to sit down to watch; it was indeed a good spot and we comfortably stayed put for 30-40 minutes for their entire performance.  We then returned to Stuart and he just finished his shift.  We sat down to have some food, then said bye to Scott and Tracey to go home. 

      We had not gone swimming this past week, and I had promised the boys that we could go swimming this afternoon.  But since we stayed at Obon much longer than I anticipated, most of us were not interested to go swimming anymore except Connor.  He really wanted to go and so I had to keep my words.  We had a good time playing in the water even though Connor said he wished daddy and Logan were there too.  When it was time for “kids out”, Connor moved onto the wadding pool.  Connor saw his friend from school, but instead of playing with him, Connor was focused diving into the water and trying to swim.  He stayed in there for a long time until I asked him out to go home for dinner.  We had quite a full day today.