Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
Saluting the red, white, and blue today!
Look at those two looking at each other! Melt my heart.
They don’t all 3 fit in the rocking chair quite as good as they did last year!
But we’re doing the best we can – striped socks, gold beads, skinned knees and all! 🙂
We hope you all have a wonderful day off!
Happy Memorial Day!
Lots of fun going on!
Dressed up in our Sunday best…
Gotten allergy shots…Spencer’s dinosaur (since named Brave!) got shots too!
Ridden the carousel at the mall…
Gotten haircuts…
and suckers!
Jumped around at Towns’ birthday party…
Colored and colored some more – and learned to write letters!
Played outside…
and worked outside!
We even found a bird’s nest outside!
We got ice cream as a treat for working so hard.
We played at the playground…
and then played at another playground!
We unfortunately skinned our knees.
We got to see the Dinosaurs at the zoo!
Choo-choo!
We’ve definitely been enjoying these summer days so far!
Obviously, the most fun part of swim lessons was getting to dress Samantha up in her adorable swim suits every day!!!
Ready to head to the pool!
Looking pretty serious about swim lessons! But oh so cute in her flamingos!
Woohoo! We get to go swimming!
Lettin’ it all hang out!
Accessories make the outfit!
She wore an itsy bitsy teeny weeny pink polka-dot not bikini!
Yep, she’s cool for the summer all right.
Lookin’ good baby girl!
Like last year, we took some swim lessons from Coach Laura to get geared up for summer. This year we did 10 full days! Monday through Friday of two weeks every day. That’s a lot of swimming – and a lot of getting 3 kids suited up and over to the pool every day! 🙂 We made it though and the kids honestly LOVED it and showed fantastic progress.
I’m going to link to a few videos in this post. You’ll have to click over to Flickr to see them.
First day in a little bit of rain. Not the best – or warmest! – of conditions but we made it.
Spencer thought everyone did good! 🙂
Over the next week, everyone kept doing good! They improved every day!
Baby still wasn’t so sure about it all and cried whenever she had to get in the pool for the first 4 lessons.
But, that all changed on Friday of the first week! She decided it was pretty fun and did great. She would stick her own head under water and really started kicking those chubby little legs by the second week!
Samantha swimming and really kicking!
Also, please watch this video of her walking into swim lessons. She’s so cute I could just die.
Maxwell is a great swimmer and was practicing different strokes and swimming from one end of the pool to the other. He also spent plenty of time in the pool practicing his flips and other tricks!
Maxwell running jump and Maxwell swimming
Spencer was working on taking a breath without stopping and keeping his feet kicking. He also practiced what to do if he gets “stuck” in the middle of the pool. Answer? put your head down and start kicking! We still need to work on it but he’s getting there.
Spencer swimming and Spencer jumping in and Spencer doing TIMBER!
I was so proud of all 3 of them! and I sure loved watching how much fun they all had in the pool together!
Here’s to a summer of swimming!
It’s over! Yesterday was the last day of school! Both boys had fantastic years and we love our preschool more than ever!
and on the last day!
He had a great year in Mrs. Betsy’s class. At his end of the year conference she had nothing but wonderful things to say about him. He’s funny, sweet, and definitely “all boy!” He knows how to pay attention in class and has lots of friends – especially Jairus and Sebastian!
Front row: Sebastian, Spencer, Ella, Fielding, Sally, Will, Margaret
Back row: Ms. Anne, Jane Evelyn, Jackson, Shepp, Mrs. Betsy, Leo, Jairus, Stephen, Mary Lyda, Mrs. Judy
So thankful for Mrs. Betsy and all his sweet teachers!
and on the last day! (well, actually the next to last day…he was dressed up for graduation on the last day so I thought this picture was better!)
Mrs. Edwards just raved about Maxwell at his conference. She said he is more than ready for kindergarten! He’s a confident, smart, curious, responsible boy and she loooooves him! I do too!
Front row: Wilson, David, Anna, Glenn, Berkeley, Mary Francis, Joseph
Back row: Maxwell, Polly, Cate, Mrs. Edwards, Mary Hamner, Blair, Bay
Maxwell had so many wonderful days with this group of kids. I’m so grateful he had a fantastic year and is now ready for MBE!!
Hooray for a great year of school! Now we’re all ready for the lazy days of summer!