Ian and Matthew started weekly swimming lessons in April at the Tonawanda Aquatic and Fitness Center. They went Saturday mornings for 30 minute lessons in the big pool.
While Ian seemed to show some improvement over the course of the session, Matthew seemed to lose ground. After the first class, Matthew jumped into the wading pool and couldn’t get his footing. I had to frantically ask a lifeguard (that wasn’t paying attention!!!) to help him or else he seriously would have drowned (more likely, I would have jumped in fully clothed in jeans and a hoodie to fish him out myself). Needless to say, Mr. Fearless turned into Mr. Cowering-in-Fear after that. He didn’t fight going to the lessons but was absolutely terrified to do much in the pool. He would freak out if a coach didn’t have their hands on him at all times.
After a few weeks of classes with too many inattentive coaches and too many kids to attend to in the pool, we decided that maybe we needed to change things up in the summer. We registered them for 4x per week lessons this summer and both showed a huge improvement. More on that later….
Here’s a picture of Matthew from the first week of spring lessons.
It was such a great trip but now I have another 700 pictures to weed through!
Here’s a quick one from our trip to see the Statue of Liberty. 🙂
What a summer! So much going on, so little time to discuss it.
After school let out in June, things kind of went crazy. Courtney came to town with the kids, had 2 ER visits, and emergency gallbladder surgery. Due to her surgery and recovery, her visit ending up lasting longer than normal. It was awesome to see them for so long but life is exponentially more crazy with 2 more kids underfoot. Work is always a bit nutty but quarter end falling during a holiday always makes it that much more of an adventure. Ian and Matthew were in 4x per week swim lessons all summer long. So busy this year….
We were so busy that I literally didn’t take any pictures with my big camera between Ian’s last day of school on June 20th and the last day of swimming lessons on August 15th. I think 2 months without taking a single picture is a record for me. On top of our crazy schedule, our PC died. No blogging. No photo editing. Nothing. Gaaah!!!
Thankfully, we replaced the PC with an iMac and I’m getting back up to speed. Unfortunately, I’m now 4.5 months behind in blogging. I’m not really sure how I’m going to catch up at this point. I may have to do a bunch of 1 picture posts to bring us back up to date.
But nothing is happening this week because we’re going on vacation, baby!!!!
I had off of work for Good Friday and the Alts were in town so we decided to dye some Easter eggs. Of course, as everyone walked in the house, I spilled two entire containers of dye all over the dining room. Gaaah!!!!
I’ve scientifically proven it’s impossible to get a picture of four children, ages 6 and under, with them all looking at the camera and smiling. Impossible.
It’s a good thing they’re cute! 😉
Getting their dye on!
Checking out the finished product and….
….getting dangerously close to breaking the “NO touching” rule. 😉
Pretty eggs!
Matthew’s class sang at church in March for Sunbeam Sunday.
Waiting for the festivities to begin.
The children have arrived!
Matthew is in the middle row, fourth in on the left (to the left of the girl in the yellow dress):
Waving to Papaw:
The applause was too loud, apparently!
Here are the videos taken by the church:
After the chiclren’s message:
Horribly out of focus but I just love this picture. My two happy boys. 🙂
