Firsts – Page 19

Church

July 27, 2016

This past Sunday we actually all 5 made it to church for the first time in forever!

My crew looking sharp. Spencer was pouting because he didn’t have pockets.

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Then the bunny ears started…

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And then I got a somewhat smiling at least all looking in the same direction picture!

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This was the first time I’ve taken Samantha to the nursery at church since Maxwell’s graduation.

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She was all excited running into church…

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But quickly started crying as soon as I left her in the nursery. 🙁 She was happy when I picked her up though and the ladies said it didn’t take her too long to stop crying. Phew! She better get ready because she starts school 2 days a week in just about a month!

Here fishy fishy

June 2, 2016

On Sunday morning, we all got up and were at the Georgia Aquarium by 9am! I’m so glad we got there right when it opened because it wasn’t too crowded yet and we were able to see the whale sharks and penguins without too big of a crowd around us…

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We then went to see the Sea Lion show and the Dolphin show. Both were great – but we had to wait way too long for them! We got in line for the Sea Lion show at 10:00 and it started at 10:30. When that was over, we went straight to the Dolphin show and were in our seats by 10:50 but the show didn’t start until 11:30! It was THAT crowded that we had to go super early – but trying to entertain/wrangle Samantha in a seat for that long was not exactly fun. After the show, we made one last stop to see the jelly fish and the eels and then we hit the road back to Birmingham.

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Overall it was a great trip. I’m not dying to go back to the aquarium anytime soon but I’m glad we went. Mostly, I’m so glad this crew got to hang out!

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A fun weekend in Atlanta!

Last soccer game

May 31, 2016

A week ago Sunday, Spencer (finally!) had his last soccer game. By this point in the season, Baby just thought she was on the team…

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And Spencer was largely over playing soccer! There were no tears, and he ran out on the field plenty, but he wasn’t super interested in actually playing! What he was interested in was getting a trophy! 🙂

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So proud!

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Go Lightning Bolts!!

Swim lessons

May 24, 2016

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.

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Spencer thought everyone did good! 🙂

Over the next week, everyone kept doing good! They improved every day!

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Baby still wasn’t so sure about it all and cried whenever she had to get in the pool for the first 4 lessons.

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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!

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Also, please watch this video of her walking into swim lessons. She’s so cute I could just die.

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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

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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!

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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!

Graduation

May 23, 2016

Maxwell’s preschool graduation was on Thursday of last week and it was as sweet as could be! He was all dressed up for the day and looking sharp!

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He had a whole host of people there to watch him graduate – GJ, Susan, Lulu, Granddaddy, and obviously me and Robert. Samantha also got to get dressed up and go with us…

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I smartly chose to put her in the nursery for the graduation ceremony. This was my first time leaving her and apparently she didn’t like it…at all. I think she cried the entire time we were gone. Oh well! I was really glad Miss Wiggle Worm wasn’t with us in the church!

Luckily we had won reserved seats at the front of the church in the Street Party drawing so we could actually see Maxwell throughout the ceremony. What we saw was him standing perfectly still. I mean, perfectly still. He moved his lips to sing but that was about it! My little statue! I asked him later that night if he was nervous up there and he said “no” and then I asked him why he was standing so still and not moving to the music at all and he said, “We were supposed to stand still!” Well, he’s got a point! Maxwell is nothing if not a rule follower! 🙂

Here’s the link to the whole ceremony if you have lots of free time: Graduation 2015/2016

The ceremony was very sweet and the video they showed only made me tear up a few times! A great day all around. It’s so hard to believe his time at IPC is over after 5 fantastic years. Maxwell sure has had a wonderful year with Ms. Edwards…

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