Swim Lessons 2010

This year with Isaac’s surgery we only did one session of swim lessons, but I think the kids all did very well with them. Nathan was a challenge for the teachers as I will post here, but he actually did very well learning and progressing. I think the best way to tell about swim lessons is to list some of my FB posts on it.

Survived the first day of eight swimming lessons. I was worried about Nathan, but he did great (at least no crying or clinging). He did sit on the side or run off instead of stay in the pool and hang on like he was supposed to the second half of the lessons. Oh and we had to take a bathroom break too for both boys ...even though I tried to make them go before we left!

Survived day 3 of swim lessons......barely. Nathan decided to jump in the deep end when both of his instructors attention was in the other direction. Can't say I was surprised by it though knowing Nathan. I think his motto is, "Do now, think later." and he has the scars to prove it!

Day 5 of swim lessons....should have warned the instructor that if she lays on the ground to demonstrate the proper technique for "reeling in" someone you're saving with a life preserver that Nathan would feel that it's fair game to go for a horsey ride. (Wish I’d had my camera for this one!)

And the last day of swim lessons (today) they got to ride the slide and have popsicles. Nathan was in his usual form today. He skipped line several times trying to keep going down the slide. He not only went first (as all the other kids were too scared to go first including his brother, of course that didn’t faze Nathan), but he managed to go another two or three more times as well.

Doing their bobs at the beginning.

Who wants to go down the slide!

Nathan’s first time.

Nathan sneaking up for his second time.

Rebekah’s turn. She swam all by herself.

Isaac’s turn he was so patient.

And Nathan had to sneak in one last one. The slide went fast!

The kids with their certificates and the promised popsicles. Rebekah did wonderfully getting all passing scores on her certificate. In my opinion she was one of, if not the best swimmer in her class. =) Isaac got all but one passing score. I think by next swim season he'll be ready for the next level. And Nathan did a lot better than I thought getting over half passing scores. (Isaac was happy he was just really concentrating on eating his popsicle.) I had to drag Nathan away from the pool kicking and screaming, because he just didn’t want to leave. Fortunately that was the only day he did that. I guess that means they had fun right?

We really did have a birthday party for the kids

I didn’t realize it had been so long since I blogged last and that I hadn’t included the birthday party we had for our June birthdays. Dwayne turned 32, Isaac 4, and Cassandra 1. We were planning on having a special one year party for Cassandra, but she ended up getting sick a day or two before so I decided against it and we just had a group party on the 13th. Rather than a different cake for each person we did cupcakes (otherwise we would have been eating cake for a month!)

It was shortly after this that Isaac had his surgery. And now for an update on that. Remember what his thumb looked like before? Well here’s the after:

It’s now been over a month since the surgery and the scar is slowly going away and as you can see he’s pretty much got the full range of motion in that last joint now. So what do we think of this?

And I also forgot to blog about my sister Sharice and her husband Derek coming down here to visit the end of May, but it’s been so long I think I’ll just post some of the pictures from the zoo trip we took. It was lots of fun to see them. They were really busy trying to fit in visits with all the family while Derek was out of school and before they made their move from St. George to SLC so that Derek can start his first year of med school this fall.

And last of the updates even before that happened Rebekah had her last day of school. She got several certificates including math and art along with an attendance certificate (she only missed one day of school the whole year!)

But my favorite was the last ones that her teacher Ms. Mineck handed out. They were certificates with what she thought they might grow up to be. Here’s the picture with Rebekah receiving her award for “Future Talk Show Host”, because she likes to talk a lot and ask alot of questions! She really loved her teacher this year and I’m sure that she will miss having Ms. Mineck as a teacher next year. We’re hoping that since her kindergarten teacher is returning this next year as a second grade teacher that she will be able to have her again. Wouldn’t that be fun! Rebekah really loved having her as a teacher as well.