Swimming lessons

Both of the kids had swimming lessons this year. But let me give some back story first. C had lessons 2 years ago (private with a friend from church: AWESOME. I begged her to do them this year; but no luck). K has never had lessons but is not at all scared of the water. She was actually in the water adjustment class. She didn't need "adjusting" except she had horrible trouble listening to the teacher.

When I registered, I was told to register them below the level that I thought they might be. I registered C for level I and the first day they re-evaluated C and moved him up to level II. There ended up being a bazillion kids in his class.

Here is the "report card" that C got at the end of lessons. He still has a few things to work on. I think I would probably have him repeat level II again next summer. For 2 reasons. #1: After jumping off the diving board, he never was able to make it to the side by himself. #2: I was able to watch level III. They focused a lot on actual strokes and he is definitely not ready for that.

K was so excited when she found out that they would be going off the diving board the next day. She did the diving blocks just fine. But the day she had to go off that diving board, she was not at all interested. There was much prodding by the teacher. But as soon as she got to the side, she said she wanted to go again. So this video is the second time. Notice how much she is balking; more so than the first time. Do you hear her wonderful mother saying "just throw her off." She wanted to go; she was going.

"catching up"

This post is going to be a "catching up" of the past few weeks or so and from now on it will all be present/future stuff.

C played PeeWee Baseball this year. He was on the Yankees team which is cool since we (I married into it) are big Yankees fans. He did really well and loved playing. He actually had 4 games that were rained out and not re-scheduled--we weren't really happy about that but oh well. He won a fair amount of his games. He won the last one, so we ended on a good note. He got a really nice trophy for playing. All in all he had fun. I know I did. I loved watching him. Daddy is making a very professional baseball video (complete with ESPN and Baseball tonight music) That's what you get when your Daddy owns a video production business. C also took swim lessons the past 2 weeks. He did such a good job. I am so proud of him. He jumps in and goes under without freaking out about the water in his eyes-an accomplishment for him. He is already asking about lessons for next year and he wants the same teacher (good job, Miss Kim)

Now onto my other kiddie--that K is something else. For those of you who know, you are laughing right now. Some days I don't know what to do with her. Here are just a few of her antics: she likes to hang on my counter tops--I'm waiting for her to climb up on top; she loves to be naked--the other day Daddy went to get her up from her nap and she had not one thing on, sound asleep--funny thing is, she didn't pee in her bed until she stood up; same day she had a poopy diaper and somehow got ahold of the wipes and started stuffing them up her shorts--she hates being dirty or wet; her newest thing now is not wanting to go down at night--I am the only one allowed to put her down and then she wants me to "tit" outside her door--so I put our laundry hamper outside her door and she thinks I'm still there--that could be classified as a bad mother or a smart mother. (By the way, as I type this K is running around with no shirt cuz she stripped it off)

Daddy had 2 baseball games last night-one at 7:45 that we watched and one at 10 that me and the kids went home for. K was grumpy about 9:15-her normal bed time. A friend looked at me and said "you aren't staying for the next game, are you?" I'm thinking he was getting tired of her crying too. Daddy won 3 games this year. Oh well. They had fun....I think. Daddy actually coached. Good job, Daddy! Now we have the tourney on July 12--it's always a long, hot day.

Not much to post for me. Keeping the house in order, trying to get ready for our 4th of July party, nothing exciting. I am reading a book called Mistaken Identity. It's about the 2 girls from Taylor University that got "switched" So far it's good. I haven't read much. I got it last night so I should finish it today. I'll let you know. And I'm in the midst to trying to re-organize my pix and scrapbook stuff. That's a huge job. I am so far behind in scrapbooking. It almost doesn't sound fun.

The title on a friend's blog says it all: "We may not have it all together, but together we have it all!"