Swimfan

Week 1 of our summer vacation is OVER and what have we been doing??  Swimming!!!

Well, and truthfully dodging the rain.  We have had a VERY rainy June which presents some problems in the swim world but we have had lots of make-up classes so we are still very busy swimming. 

 

Jillian has been competing in the 25 free and the 25 back.  This week we got an email that she had been placed on one of the relay teams so now she would be in 3 races.  She was very excited.  She is loving swim team.  Well, Saturday morning came with a 5:45 wake-up time.  (It is seriously painful to wake up that early during my summer vacation!!)  We get Jillian there in time for warm-ups and the relay event is the first event.  I start noticing that everybody is a LOT taller than Jillian.  These girls look huge.  I mean what are they 10??  What is going on??  This is a picture showing I am NOT exaggerating the size difference.  With some questioning on my part, we discover that the relay events are for girls age 8 and under.  Oh my word!!!  Well, let's just say that Jillian's little team of 6 year olds got demolished by the 8 year olds but she did not seem to notice and it is good experience!!  Jillian was the anchor and let's just say that she was the only one in the pool as the other teams had already finished the race.  Ha!! 

 

 

She is waiting for the 3rd leg girl....

 

OK, back to competing against other 6 year olds!!!!

 

That went a little better!!

 

 

The thing about swim is that it is really fun for about 5 minutes and then the rest of the time it is very difficult entertaining this boy.  He is struggling right now to share any of the spotlight.  Here he is modeling a swim cap.

 

After the meet, we were off to KK's 2nd birthday party!!!!  He is all about golf and hitting the ball!! 

 

Mom made the cake and I was in charge of decorating.

 

Gotta have cupcakes too!!  I made these and decorated!!

 

Despite their faces, the kids had so much fun celebrating with sweet KK!!  I feel terrible that I did not get one pic of him with my camera.  (I was in charge of taking pics with Summer's camera.)

 

We are on to Week 2 of summer vacation = VBS, swim and dance recital.