Swim Lessons and Dunking

Hello everyone.  This past week seemed like a pretty typical week with not much going on, bur rather busy.  In hind sight it seems like we did a TON this past week!  First and foremost, Brooke started swim lessons on Tuesday!  She loves them and is doing great!  They've been working on the basics, one of which was floating on your back.  Brooke was resting her head on the teachers shoulder, and then she'd be holding them at first and move her hands out from under them.  She was showing Brooke her hands and I got this picture right as Brooke realized she was floating on her own!!  She was SOO excited!  She loves her swim lessons and is excited to go back on Tuesday.

On Monday morning, Brooke and Pua were still a little tired when they got up, so they snuggled on the couch for a while in the morning.  Brooke specifically asked for this picture to be included. (She also asked for it to be taken!)

Monday Brooke wore her BYU shirt and wanted BYU hair.  I think it looks great!  Good job Monica!  Maybe next time we could get the Y sticking up off her head though... just a thought.

On Wednesday night, I went to play basketball, and only one other person came.  After a little he left, but I stayed to practice dribbling with my left hand because I'm quite terrible at it.  After a while, I figured I should just head home, but wanted to try a few dunks.  This isn't really a new thing, I've been able to dunk since I was 17 I think, but I just don't really get a chance to document it.  Since no one else was around, it didn't seem awkward to set up my phone to get a video, so I took full advantage.  At least I've got it documented so its not only a story for the rest of my life!  Actually, after minimal digging (I searched "dunk" in google photos) I found the video of my very first dunk way back in 2005!  I was a little more excited my first time :).

Brooke also requested this picture of her as a cat.  She has a cat book, and the last page lets you be a cat.  Brooke was very excited.

Thursday takes us back to the pool for Brooke's second swim lesson.  We went to the rec center early this time so that we could go swimming as a family for a little first.  Also, Winry screamed and cried the whole way home after Brooke's first swim lessons when she didn't get to swim at all.  Here's Brooke in her floaties.

And Monica and Winry playing in the water.  Winry had a great time, and kept playing through part of Brooke's swim lesson.

At Brooke's swim lessons, in addition to floating, they've worked on blowing bubbles with their nose, picking rings up off the floor where their heads have to go under, kicking their legs, and jumping into the pool!  Brooke loves it all and has a great time every week.  We're very proud of her, and she is doing much better with getting water in her face now!

On Thursday night we had to rush home after swim lessons because Jessica was coming over for dinner and a new member lesson.  We also had the missionaries over for dinner on Tuesday night (which was another rush home from swim lessons!) and Monica even had a party at our house Wednesday night when I was gone playing basketball!  It was a pretty crazy week around here with the whole day being full.

We've been listening to Burn the House Down a bunch lately because the kids love it, especially Winry.  She'll even try to sing along when they say "way up way up we go!"  Monica told me that on Saturday morning when Winry was eating breakfast, she pointed over at our Echo and started saying "wayowayowego!" so that Monica would turn the song on.

On Friday, Monica took the kids down to Castle Rock as there is a big kids consignment sale thing there right now.  They were able to get some good clothes and a few toys for the kids, and even found tap shoes for Brooke for $3 for her dance class this summer!  Here's Winry on the rocking horse we picked up.

Brooke came into our room Saturday morning while I was running and slept on my spot on the bed.  She was wearing her new flamingo slippers (from the same sale) and knew we didn't put shoes in the bed, so she slept with her legs hanging out!!  So cute!

On Saturday morning, it was our turn to help clean the church.  I think everyone assigned came and cleaned, so we flew through it all.  I think we only ended up being there for about 30 minutes!!  Thanks everyone for coming!  As is our family tradition, we HAD to go get donuts after, and the Greens came with us!  They were also cleaning that morning, and Alayna and Brooke were cleaning together all morning, so of course they got donuts together!

We even got Winry a cro-hole!  She very much enjoyed it!

After donuts, Monica dropped me off at home as we had people coming to help with the basement, and she took the kids with her to get an allergy shot.  Winry was rocking her sun glasses while they were there!

When they got home it was conference time.  Winry decided laying on Monica's legs was the most comfortable way to watch conference.  That or she was trying to steal Jelly's spot... I'm not really sure.

Brooke and I thought that looked like a pretty good idea, and maybe fell asleep during the afternoon session...  However, with the help I got in the morning, the basement is now ready for it's first set of inspections!!!  Hopefully it'll pass!

Well, I think that's all I've got for now, and I've got a cinnamon roll sitting next to me (conference tradition) so I REALLY need to go (cause it smells SOOO good!)!  Continue to enjoy General Conference, and have a great week ahead!!