summer fun | Adventures of Four

Free Slurpee Day

On July 11th every year, the convenience store, 7-11, celebrates its birthday by giving away free Slurpees all day! The boys and I could not miss out on that.

The store was crawling with people when we pulled up a little after 4 PM. After circling the tiny parking lot without success, we ended up having to park our car at the Montessori school next door and walked over. People cannot be denied their Slurpees, you know 🙂

It was cherry for me (I’m a purist). Wildman had 3/4 Coke with a 1/4 cherry floating on top. Cutie Pie had 3/4 Coke with 1/4 pina colada on top of his. Crazy kids! It was a great way to beat the oppressive summer heat. Thank you, 7-11.

We Made a Bike Wash!

Last week I sent J a link for how to make a bike wash thinking that it would be a super fun thing for the boys to enjoy. Last weekend he made it a reality!

For two afternoons, the bike was was in action. The kids had a blast zipping up and down the sidewalk going through the sprayers, sponges and streamers. All of the PVC came from Lowe’s. I found the colorful sponges at Walmart in the automotive department. The blue fringe was a plastic tablecloth from the dollar store that I cut up. The short green fringe was a luau decoration also from the dollar store. The pool noodles are dollar store purchases as well. I didn’t tally everything up but I’m pretty sure all of the supplies were less than $50.

I blew bubbles and shot shaving cream at the kids as they went by. Of course ice pops were distributed as well 🙂

One of our neighbors even brought his bikes down for a washing. He gave each of the boys a dollar for letting him use the bike wash. It was so cute! They boys were thrilled!