Swimming!

I know it sounds a little strange to hear that my kids started swim practice today, since it's February, but today was a beautiful day! Even if it wasn't, the pool was heated so it would have been OK. :-)

The kids have been itching to get on our local swim team and we've been on a waiting list for a few months. Some spots finally opened up for them and they are thrilled to be starting practice this month. It's awesome for me that the pool is right across the street from our school and practice is shortly after school. Austin has been on the summer swim team for a few years, so we knew he'd take right to it. Brooke has been excited about it for a long time, but this was her first actual practice. I was unsure of how it would go, but she jumped right in and swam like a rock star. I was so proud of her! She's really stoked to be a part of something that she has watched Austin do for years. I can't believe she's already so big but it's fun to see her make such great strides.

Austin is really excited to be swimming in the winter season, since he's only done summer in the past. He has 2 friends in his class that are on the winter team and they've been excited for him to join them. We celebrated the arrival of swim practice by getting some new goggles for each of the kids and a cute new swim suit for Brooke. I'll be sure to post a cute picture of that, when she wears it next.

Cameron kept me hopping the whole time we were at the pool, of course. He really, really, really wanted to throw stuff int he water. He kept picking things up off the ground and running away from me toward the water with hand fulls of rocks and dirt from the planters, mulch, weeds, you name it. Water is meant for throwing stuff in, right? he sure thinks so. We'll have a fun few months of trying to break him of that habit, I'm sure. At least he wasn't trying to jump in, I'm sure that will come soon. We decided to add swimming as our newest adventure because you know what, we weren't busy enough around here. I sure love my kiddos and they really wanted to do it, so here we go every day to swim practice. :-)