We had hand flapping about a year ago when DH lost his job and DD then 6 got stressed about what was happening. This has morphed into clearing her throat and making other strange noises when she is stressed, or senses that I am stressed. We asked her doctor about it and he said that she is just one of those highly sensitive kids who does this without realizing it to deal with tension (we knew she was highly sensitive to my moods already so this wasn't a surpise).
As for our summer - we decided to grow a garden this summer, in hopes of getting lots of veggies for canning and preserving and baking - but we've been most successful growing catepillars!
Which has turned DDs into catepillar "owners" complete with a butterfly house and the daily "chore" of feeding them and cleaning their house and basically keeping track of them. It has been great for them, but not so great on DH's ego - he was really hoping for a banner crop of tomatoes.
We've also got swimming and soccer and yet another move, with another job change (hopefully this one will last longer than the last one.) So life's crazy here, but the whole family is off for the summer, so lots of family time
, which will make school starting a bit tough on DD2, but is great while it lasts.
