Summer List 2017

It's already July(!) and I'm just posting our Summer List for 2017.  The Fourth of July and fireworks are behind us now and it feels like the midpoint of summer, doesn't it?  Please slow down...we need more days to chill.

Trip to NYC (but we want to go again!)

Trip to Philadelphia (I'll post about this soon)
Plan our end of summer trip
Visit a lake

Make homemade ice cream

Go to a baseball game

Find a new hike

Visit a new museum*

Perfect a BBQ chicken recipe

Listen to NPR Kids' Podcast Wow in the World

Listen to audio books

Art time

Make summer reading lists

Host outdoor movie night
Host NERF war
Get school supplies for middle school(!)
Work on photography
Go tubing
Go fishing
Go boating
Swim until pool closes
Go to the beach
Take some summer Fridays
Make shave ice
Make banana-based ice cream (what!?)
Go fruit picking
Ride bikes

* We knocked this off our list with our long weekend trip to NYC: new to us was our visit to The Cloisters, The Whitney, and the boys went to the Ripley Museum (does that one count?).  Plus two more new museums this past weekend in Philadelphia.