Basketball , swimming, summer!

So I am enjoying every aspect of the summer(except for the fact that mine is spent mostly in an office). I get up work on my blogs and wait impatiently for 8:30. That's when I go pick Alexa up to take her to basketball camp. We ride in the truck and she tells me about all that she is enjoying in the camp and she still enjoys the fact that I did the same thing when I was a kid. We take her to camp and yes I am becoming that parent. You know the one that sits around and watches while everyone drops their kid off at the door, or leaves them in the parking lot I walk in and watch her for a few minutes. Then it's back to the office for me.
There I sit (im)patiently waiting for 11:30 which is when I leave to resume my role as "that parent" who arrives early to watch his kid play basketball. I can't help it, it's fun to watch her interact with the other kids and see where she is in comparison. She is in the middle of her group as far as age, but clearly(not as a biased parent) ahead of them in the dribbling and shooting area. She can out dribble all but one little boy in her group, and shoots as well as any kid in the group can. So I see that our time in the driveway each afternoon is paying off. It's paying off in 2 respects: 1 - it's making her a better basketball player, and 2 - the most important one it is making our relationship stronger. I'll admit I have searched around to find that niche, that "thing" that could become "our thing" because I know that is important. My dad used to come home from work to find me sitting by the door with a bag full of baseballs ready to go to the park. Alexa does the same thing dribbling the basketball around in the driveway as I get home.
P.J. on the other hand likes speed and swimming. She is part superhuman when it comes to speed(bike, scooter, running), whatever can get her moving fast is what she does. We went swimming yesterday after I played basketball with Alexa for a little while and she never stops. She does cannonballs, jumps of weird names and awkward landings, and lots and lots of swimming. No floaties anymore, no holding on to the sides she is off and swimming before I can even get my shoes off and in the water.
So summer time is shaping up to be a blast with these two. Tara is working 2 night jobs so she enjoys them by day and I do the same in the afternoon and evening. I dread August when they have to go back to school! Summer seems more fun now than it did to me when I was a kid, and I certainly had my share of fun!
Have a great day!