Princess boot camp

Around here we roll with Power Rangers, Transformers and anything boy! Soon we are surprising the boys with a day trip to Disney Paris and I want them to have some clue about the characters and castles. Lucky for us, we have friends with little girls that also happen to love Disney! They loaned us some DVDs to get us started. The boys now have Sleeping Beauty and Snow White under their belts. They actually enjoy them (those two happen to have very dark scenes in them). Next up is Peter Pan and then Cinderella will round up the week.

34 :)

Today was a great day! The best :) It was my 34th birthday. Jack won all 3 of his heats for me! The boys gave me sweet cards that they created all on their own. I went for a pedicure with 3 of my friends and we shared Prosecco and petit fours. Then after pedis, my little family went to dinner with our friends, The Boudreaux's, on the lakefront. The kids played and played together. It really doesn't get any better than this!!

Last swim meet

We had an early wake up call this morning for Jack's last swim meet. I told him that winning first place would be the best birthday gift he could give me. Well, he gave me three 1st place wins! Jack beat his best times by several seconds in freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke. I told him he was on fire and he loved that! He and Theo got their very first rainbow snoballs after the 2nd heat. Neither of them really ate very much though. Theo had to have his 8 am snoball though, so maybe he was full :)

Theo had his last swim lesson after the swim meet with coach Kirsty. She's been so patient and sweet with him. It's slowly all coming together for him and we'll continue to work at coming up for air and moving arms/legs more this summer :) The coaches gave Theo a swim team trophy since they had some extras. They thought it was very sweet that Jack was so insistent yesterday that Theo get one. Brothers can be sweet..... sometimes :)

Waterspouts and snoballs

We met up with tons of friends yesterday at the waterspouts. It was threatening rain all day long but never produced a drop! The boys loved running around and especially enjoyed a yummy snoball :) We wrapped up the day by making thank you notes for the swim coaches.

River Oaks Racers

Jack's swim team had their trophy ceremony tonight and Jack gets to add another trophy to his collection :) He really, really wanted Theo to get one as well but everyone had to explain that Theo wasn't on the team this year. Sweet brother! The kids ate pizza afterwards and tomorrow morning is their final swim meet. Jack really had fun being on the Racers and is such a strong swimmer now. He especially LOVED his coach, Steven, and truly looks up to him. Here he is with friends, Amelia and Abigail. Across the table were Mikaela, Isabella, Nicolas and Julien.

Swimming on Prozac

Jack wraps up swim team this Friday with one final swim meet. The kids have all worked so hard and really learned a lot this summer. Here they are lined up for relays.

Theo started week 2 of swim lessons. His swim teacher said today it's like he's swimming on Prozac ;) Just real laid back, in no hurry, really relaxed. I always giggle at how slowly he kicks when he swims under water. Today Ms. Kirsty tried to teach him to come up for air, dive in and push down his arms to move in the water. He's doing great though and able to swim a little bit from the steps and back. All great considering he had never put his face under water prior to last week :)

Independence Day fun

Our subdivision has a party every 4th of July with a giant waterslide and BBQ. Theo has always been too little to really enjoy the waterslide but this year he made up for lost time. He was the smallest and youngest by far in line but he couldn't get enough :) Jack alternated between swimming in the pool and doing the waterslide. He saw a friend from school and Dave and I were able to meet his parents. That was really nice! Alyssa and Aidan were also there and the kids just had a blast together. Happy 4th of July to everyone. Thank you to our soldiers, past and present, for the freedom we enjoy today and everyday.