Summer is ending. Why? This was a fabulous summer full of camping, hiking, and plenty of family chill time. Kelton got monkey bars for his birthday and we finally installed them. These boys have an incredible bedroom. I'm a little jealous.
Jeremy and I had a long bike ride up to Ward, but Jeremy wanted to take me somewhere new and we ended up at Hidden Lake. He had been up there before with the guys but I never had. I'm glad he made me keep going it was really pretty.
We have had some adventures with Baymax this summer. While on her way to the Cavetown concert, Baymax overheated in rush hour traffic. It was hours before we could get a tow truck, she had to still make it to the concert, it was raining, she had friends waiting...it was a whole thing. Once Baymax made it back home Cambrie tried diagnosing the problem. We started by adding more coolant and then waited for more data. She stopped using the AC, avoided traffic, and watched her temperature gauge regularly but it wasn't enough. The next time Baymax overheated it was at 9:00 at night in downtown Denver, and Cambrie's phone was dead. She slept for three hours in a parking lot waiting for the car to cool down but couldn't do anything else. At that point we decided to take the car in to have it looked at. The radiator fan needed to be replaced, and we are hoping that Baymax is good to go!
McKenzie had a definite vision of what she wanted her back-to-school hair to look like. Luckily Stacey has the skills to make that happen. McKenzie had her haired highlighted and now has curtain bangs. She suddenly looks like a teenager! She was smiling ear to ear when she walked out of the salon and I love that she loves how she looks.
Probably the most disappointing way to end a summer is with surgery. We opted to have Kelton's tonsils removed because they were oversized and we think they were causing him sleep issues. In preparation I stocked the fridge with lots of soft cold things. Daxton was incredibly jealous of all of the good things Kelton got to eat, and Kelton was just relieved there was something he could eat that didn't cause him pain.
The actual surgery was no fun for Kelton. There were no complications but s when he started waking up you could see just how much pain he was in. He was a little loopy but still his sweet self. They had warned up that recovery would take ten days. I thought that was a little on the generous side but it turns out that ten days is pretty standard. Poor guy was not feeling well at all. There was a lot of sleeping, a lot of popsicles and some extra screen time. He was barely ready for school to start, but he made it.
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