14 Year Old Checkup

I took Ben for his 14 year old well exam today. He measured at 6 foot 1 inch even, and 143 pounds. His height is back to floating above the growth curve right now - they wrote "100%" for the percentile. The doctor said since he usually sits right around the top line (>95th percentile) for height, that he will probably settle back down there instead of staying off the chart. So he predicted something like 6'3 and a half for a final height for him. All I know is his growth better slow down soon - he grew 4 inches this past year and 4 the year before that too I think. He already complains his bed is too short :) Otherwise the checkup was uneventful. Ben is home this week doing his reading for school and resting up after a fun week in Philly with Uncle Mike and Aunt Kathleen! He had a great time.

On Sunday we head to San Francisco for a week! We are splitting the time between SF and Lake Tahoe. Hopefully it will be awesome! And a lot cooler weather than Charlotte. The girls are finishing up their last week of camp this week. Hard to believe the summer will be over in a month!

Ben and Annie

Ben and his cousin Annie at dinner last night. I think they look kind of alike don't you?

Cake Baking

Ben and Uncle Mike set out to make this cake for Aunt Kathleen's birthday:

And somehow took a left turn and ended up with this:

Apparently the cake didn't rise and the mousse filling didn't set , so they decided to improvise. It looks great! (Apparently it didn't taste so great though). I told Ben next time he needs to pick something less complicated!

Philly Bound

Ben headed to Philly yesterday — after a bit of a delay due to severe weather — on a plane named Wilbur. Have a great visit Ben!

Performing Arts, session 1

Becca finished up her first session of performing arts camp last weekend and performed as a Neverland native in a total of five performances of Peter Pan over two days. Phew! She did a great job! Now on to session 2, 101 Dalmatians, in which she is playing Boxer #2 ;)

Camp cutie

Becca's Famous Again

This banner is hanging in the Temple Beth El parking lot. Becca is pictured with her friend Leah.

#Flowing

Puppy Dog Eyes

New Phone

Ben killed his phone in MA last weekend by jumping into a pool with his phone in his pocket when it already had a cracked screen. The cell phone repair shop spent two days trying to resuscitate it to no avail. So i ended up buying out the rest of what I owed on my phone which was $93 and switching that phone to Ben and getting myself a new phone. Somehow Ben made out pretty well since the phone he killed was a 32 GB iPhone 7 and the one he got from me was a 128 GB iPhone 7. I got an iPhone 8. I wanted a X but instead I got an iPhone SE for Becca for her upcoming 11th birthday (Sshhhh it’s a surprise!) I also upgraded us to unlimited data since we are always going over our allowance and managed to apply a military discount thanks to Joel’s dad which means I got 4 lines of unlimited data for less than the price of 3 , otherwise. Yay!

4th of July

Up to the usual 4th of July shenanigans this year!