Swim With The Fishes

The reasoning behind the title of this post is two-fold. First of all, by beloved Jetta is dead (get it? swimming with the fishes? har har). It was going to cost more than it is worth to fix because the whole back end got torqued and they would have to replace the entire back half of the body. Not happening. We're still waiting to find out how much the insurance will pay me out for it but in the mean time, here's my ride:


Thanks, Mom and Dad!

The second reason for the title is more obvious: the kids are taking swimming lessons and loving it. They are both doing great and actually putting their faces under water. On purpose! Here are some action shots:

Here's How My Day Went

Turtles

I know I have been lazy about posting for the past month... lots going on. Here is the highlight of our trip to Maui. There were three turtles grazing on the reef behind our condo and we spent some quality time together.

Flirt

Lorelai has made a friend. He's 10. His name is Alexander. He's a flirt. Lorelai is eating it up.

The two of them have been hanging out in the pool both afternoons we've been here and today he was showing off his diving skills. Lorelai was rating his dives and gave him a 4 for length on one of them. His response was that the length doesn't matter, just the form.

I turned to my mom and said "it's not the size, its how you use it."

Toothless

She couldn't be more proud.

Hot

I took this at 10 AM yesterday. Its hot.

Proud Mommy

Lorelai's school had a spring carnival today. It was small but really fun. They had half a dozen games that everybody was a winner at, face painting, and food. We won a silent auction for a family game night basket complete with Checkers, Connect Four and Jenga.

Both kids enjoyed the milk bottle game, though Lorelai had better luck knocking the bottles down.


Spencer was lucky if he got the ball near the table, he couldn't decide if he throws right or left handed.


Lorelai wanted her face painted and once the teacher doing the painting talked her out of a brown horse with a black mane and tail (too hard to do) she came up with some lovely strawberries.


Spencer had to have strawberries just like his big sister. He couldn't contain himself and had to flirt with what I hope will be his 6th-grade teacher whom we met at Open House last week.


The fish pond was full of magnetic fish and the idea will probably be ripped off and make an appearance at our 4th of July party this year along with the beanbag toss.


Now we get to the reason for the title of this post. I'm incredibly proud of both of my kids for what you'll see in this video. Of Spencer for his perseverance and good attitude, and of Lorelai for her enthusiastic support of her little brother. I stopped filming just seconds too soon and missed the huge hug she gave him at the end.