Tag: swimming

Entering the world of swimming

Samantha loves to swim.  I’m not sure how that happened because she was terrified of the water for several years.  We had some good lifeguard swim instructors from ages 3-5, and she slowly began to enjoy the water.  I had no idea just how much she would enjoy it.

At the end of summer 2014, she was so sad to say goodbye to our neighborhood pool.  We had been bouncing around at sports, so we decided the next sport would be swimming.  After calling around and ending up at the Y, we started in this weird world of swimming.

We go back to our neighborhood pool during the summer, but we have been swimming twice a week for 2 years now.  It’s great exercise and she enjoys it.  I finally convinced her to try a swim meet.  She loves being timed, but was afraid of the competition from some reason.  After much convincing, we finally made it.

She had a blast.  She only swam in four races (a 25 m of each of the strokes) but she did come in 1st in her heat during two of those races.  Lots of fun.  She wants to try more of the smaller meets.  What an interesting world.

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Summer 2014

On Friday, August 1st, I thought to myself, “Whew.  I made it.”  Months in advance, I have to plan out the summer, arranging for camps and activities for the kids.  We are on the home stretch now, as the last week of summer is Mom Camp.  More on that later.

We started the summer with the Balloon Glow.

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And some dress up from the favorite new movie.

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We’ve done A LOT of this:

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In fact, Samantha learned how to jump off the diving board this summer.  It’s about time.

This one, on the other hand, has been doing it (with her float) for a while:

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She has had a few lessons this summer, and might be a fish, just like Samantha.

 

We haven’t done enough of this:

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We’ve also seen most of the children’s shows at the library.  Samantha got picked to be a volunteer in every show that made requests. This one was Billy Jonas.  It was a new show for the library, and what a wonderful surprise!

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And we couldn’t miss Roger Day!
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The girls have spent lots of time on this:

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And even got to ride on one of these:

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And because we didn’t already have enough going on, we scraped the popcorn ceiling off in 4 rooms.

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I think that about sums it up.  I didn’t intend to let the whole summer go by and not post.  Hopefully, this summer in pictures captures it all.  School starts next week!

Some Summer Happenings

I can feel the ever so slight easing of heat around here.  We’ve had glimpses of some nice fall weather, so you know summer is wrapping up.  Here are some pictures from our summer.

Swimming at MamaLinda’s

Walking in the rain

Trying on a Burger King crown

Visiting the McWane Center

Celebrating a 90th birthday

Swimming Lessons

I have been behind on getting Samantha prepared for the pool.  She spends a good deal of time around one during the summer months, but she’s never had lessons.  This summer, it’s time.  We’re starting with a class at the Lakeshore Foundation through Swimwell.    I hope to have an additional class throughout the summer, but we’ll see.

There was some of this:

But also some of this:

Hopefully, we’ll have more of this: