Sunday, June 13, 2021

Swim Lessons

This past week Brooke and Winry started swim lessons.  They're at the outdoor pool this year!  I don't know if this has always been an option, but this is the first time we've done lessons there.  The lessons are Monday through Thursday, and next week will be the second half.  The girls have been loving it, and they've been staying at the pool after swim lessons and enjoying extra swimming time.  It's also been a lot hotter this week, which is both a great time to be in the pool, and also a rough time to be outside all day.


Here's Winry with Grayson, watching Brooke's swim lesson.  They are really enjoying getting to be out of the house doing things!


Here's Monica and Grayson.  I guess if you want to be in the blog this week you've just got to put your arm around Grayson.  Now wonder it's so hard for me to make it in here any more.


Grayson has been working on putting on his own sunscreen.  He's still struggling with pushing down the button to spray it.  I'm sure he'll progress soon.


Heading back home, Winry has been patching this past week.  One of her eyes has a lot better vision than the other, so she has to wear a patch for 2 hours every day to prevent getting a dominant eye.  She loves getting to wear her patch, and after the first day and experimenting with getting things very wet before removal she's even started to take off her patch herself!  However, this morning when she got up she told Monica and I that her head was hurting, and that it had been recently.  The doctor did warn that it could give her headaches, so we're going to call tomorrow and see if there's anything we can do.


Back at the pool, here's Brooke out with her teacher.  Brooke is loving swim lessons, and, when we're out as a family she'll swim all around the pool by herself in her floaties.  She's loving the water, and loving to learn.  She still doesn't like her face to get wet though, but we've noticed from Grayson getting splashed in the face that he doesn't seem to mind.


After swim lessons there has been some other activity just about every day.  Sometimes it was more swimming, but Winry also had dance lessons right after, and one day there was outdoor story time at a nearby library.  After story time everyone went in to explore the library, and it had a pet vet station!  The girls had loads of fun taking care of the animals.


In addition to all the other fun activities, we've also spent some time at splash pads around town.  It's been a very water week.  It's also been a hot week, so it seems fair.  Grayson snuck into the lunches while no one was looking and munched away on an orange.  Someone needs to teach him to peel those things first.


Here's Winry in her swim lesson.  She's floating on one of those dumbbell looking things, practicing kicks.  She's had a bit of a rough time getting in and trying things out, but her teacher has been very patient and nice to her, and the other girl in her class, Summer, also encourages her, cheers her on, and tries to help her out!  I don't know who this little girl is, but I'm very grateful she's so wonderful!  Winry really appreciates her.


Grayson is still having a bottle a day, and Brooke has started to give them to him.  Brooke's gotten pretty good at holding Grayson and is getting really good at helping out.  In other Grayson news, Grayson has waved a few times now.  I don't think he has recently, but he did it a few times about a week ago.  He's also started pointing, again, currently intermittently.  He's a cutie for sure!


Winry found a really helpful way to wear her glasses...  I don't know what inspired this, but it was great!


On Saturday I headed into the backyard with the girls.  I cleaned up some stuff in the yard and then wanted to practice a little golf.  The girls wanted to share my golf balls, and so I let them have most of them and just rotated through hitting the same few.  I had a lot of fun until I broke both my mat and tee... at least the net and house are still in good condition.


We're all a little tanner at this point, but I think the sun and heat has made us all more tired.  I'm definitely feeling it!  I'd say I'm heading off for an afternoon nap, but Monica just left for a ministering interview, so I'm not sure I'll get so lucky...  Have a great week!

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