Fish

This last week was the week of swimming lessons. I tried something new this year and got my kids into lessons given at the backyard pool of a family not far from our house.  They structure things a little differently and the older kids have lessons for an hour a day for a week, and the preschool kids, like Korinne, have 1/2 hour lessons for 2 weeks.  Since only one class can be taught at a time I had to go back and forth 5 times a day to get all of my kids to swimming lessons every day last week.  It is a good thing it was only 1/2 mile away because that is a lot of driving back and forth!

I've never been able to take a swimming class picture before.

Jenna is a fish.  They let her borrow goggles during her lessons and now she is converted.  She loves to drop rings to the bottom and then go after them.

Britton loved being able to jump off the diving board and go down the slide they have at the pool.

You can see him already going into a twist before he left the board.

I must admit that it is nice to have 2 of my 3 children proficient in the water.  I might actually take them swimming more often now that I can spent more time reading a book and less time in the water.

Korinne still has another week to go, but is already demanding that I get her some goggles. 

"Mom, I need goggles, Mom.

Mom, I really need goggles. 

I sure love goggles. 

Um, I think I need some goggles." 

Ok, I've got it. You think you need goggles.  I haven't made any promises which is why she keeps bringing it up. I guess this is what I get for taking them for lessons at a small privately owned pool.  We never had this problem at the city aquatic center.

Adam has been promising the kids a campout.  "Campout" meaning that they set the tent up in the back yard and sleep in it.  About 3 years ago I discovered that we owned a tent.  Yup, married for 7 years before I knew we had a tent in our possession.  Well, Friday night I actually got to SEE the tent.  It's actually pretty nice. Who knew?  Anyway, Adam and I had just gotten home from the temple when he decided to deliver on his camping promise so he set up the entire thing up in his suit.

Nothing says camping like a good suit and tie.

Everything went well until around 5 a.m. when Adam woke up to the sound of the sprinklers turning on. Rookie mistake.  The kids slept through it for the most part, but Adam got a little wet trying to fix the situation.  I heard all about the experience second hand, of course, because I was sleeping comfortably in my own bed when it happened. Hey, I roughed it for 18 mo. on my mission, I think I'm good for awhile. :-)

On a side note Korinne still sleeps on the floor.  She has been sleeping on the floor for almost 3 years now. Every night she takes a pillow and blanket off of her comfortable bed and puts it on the floor by her night light and falls asleep. Most nights her night light isn't even on.  I never have been able to understand why she does it, but it doesn't look like she will be changing anytime soon.  We often wonder why we spent the money on a bed in the first place.  Kind of makes for an expensive decoration.