Swim Like a Fish

It is that time of year again.

We are spending everyday at least 45 minutes a day at the pool.

Grace is on "The Team."

She loves being on the swim team. When it comes to meet days, she gets so nervous and overly excited. She loves cheering on her team mates. She enjoys swimming across the pool and giving you a great big hug afterwards. She has even started liking the fact that I write on her body for the meet. She doesn't let me write more than her event/heat/lane chart and her name and age, but this is a big improvement over last year. She has improved her time and is swimming in 3 events per meet, freestyle, backstroke and a freestyle relay.

At meets she eats and eats and eats, hot dogs, pizza, candy and anything else that I might pack/buy for her.

This year is proving much harder for mommy with a mobile toddler instead of a lap baby. Lily is well known all around the pool. She does her laps around the pool deck. She gets her exercise getting in and out of the pools. (There is a baby pool, but she prefers to play on the stairs and jump into the big pool. She dislikes having mommy hold her in the pool and she does not want to be in the baby float. She wants FREEDOM! She loves meets, because everyone knows her name(I don't even have to write it on her back), she can eat all the junk she wants and she LOVES cheering for her sister. (It also helps that our neighbors and best friends are on the team). She also hates meets because they are LONG, HOT and she can't get into the pool at all. (wait til next year when Grace moves up to the 7-8 year old crowd and there are more events.)

So far Grace has participated in 2 meets and has 2 left(we were out of town for the first one.) The first that she participated in was away and she did pretty well with only mommy there to cheer her on. The next meet was home, delayed for about an hour due to heavy thunder and lightening, but otherwise fun. Can't wait to see what the next two hold.

Well it is time to rest from our morning at the pool and for mommy to think of new ways to put muscle as well as meat on Grace's skinny bones.

This is what you do with 4 swimmer waiting out a storm, go to the car and watch a movie!

Go Waves!

It is officially Summer!

We spent a week at the Florida coast last week, before the oil hit. Of course I took over 300 pictures with my fancy new camera. Here is just a sneak peak........

Really, really, go away Monday!

Oh so much fun.
NOT
Today started the "lazy days" of summer. Grace started off with a bang by waking us up at around 1:20 for the first time. Another time around 2:30 and then sometime around 5:45. Tom then had to get ready for work. So eventually we got to breakfast and getting ready for Swim team practice. We had a great day swimming and playing at the pool for a while after swim team. Then it was time to go home for lunch, baths and naps.
That is when it all happened.
As we were walking to the car, I stepped off the curb and my ankle twisted and I heard a LOUD pop and all my muscles went limp. Unfortunately I was carrying Lily. I fell to the ground as did Lily scraping her ear and hitting the back of her head on the asphalt. So we then spent the rest of the afternoon, riding in an ambulance to the hospital, getting an x-ray of my foot and ankle, getting the all clear on Lily's head injury and detoxing upon getting home.

At this point I want to say THANK YOU to Ms. Lara and her boys for calling 911, watching Grace and helping me wrap my head around everything. Thank you to the Firefighters and EMTs for your kind words and especially Firefighter Jeff who was a very nice YOUNG guy who put Ms. Lily at ease and held her while she slept(he got a lot of teasing even from his captain and nurses in the hospital). Thank you to my wonderful loving husband who dropped everything and met us at the ER, drove us home, bought us dinner and an ice pack. Thank you to my parents and who came to the ER and were the liaison between me in fast track 3 and Lily in pediatric ER and sat with me in my wet bathing suit awaiting to see what the x-rays said. Also I should say thank you to the nurses, doctors and technicians who attended to us at the hospital.

So it is just a sprain and Lily may have a headache, but it is over, it is almost Tuesday.

Goodnight.