Swim Lessons for Blake & Ryker!!!

This summer my boys both took swim lessons through ISR. They were taught how to "swim-float-swim". I really wanted more of a survival swim lesson which is what ISR does. Both boys did great and were able to float and swim by the end. These pictures are of them floating.
The boys both learned to swim, flip over and float, and then flip over to swim again. These pictures are of both of them swimming. Blake is actually diving for sticks is this one.
These pictures of both boys reaching the side. I am so proud of them and feel a little bit of comfort knowing they have these skills. If you are interested in looking into these lessons for your kids go to infantswim.com. They take kids 6 mos. to 6 years old.

First Day of School!

These are pictures of Blake on his first day of school this year. He was just so excited to get on the bus and go to school. What suprised me was that after school he was not at all excited to tell me about his day. Our conversation went like this:
Me: "Hi, how was school?"
Blake: "Good"
Me: "Did you have fun?"
Blake: "Yes"
Me: "What did you guys do today?"
and he walked away to go play. I had to just crack up that he, at age 4, is over the "telling mom about my day" thing. He does share who did things that got them put in time out every day though. Luckily it hasn't been him yet.... Ill hope it stays that way.

Oh yes, and I am late again, school started on August 6th. And although I did take the pictures on the first day of school, it has taken me this long to post them. He is just so cute though!

My Fat Feet

I have gotten this rare virus thing that is not contagious but is extremely painful and annoying. I get these lumps/masses under the skin that hurt and then cause heavy swelling. It also causes really bad joint pain which I have learned subsides a little as I walk and move the joints. Since it is a virus there is not really anything they can do, I just have to wait it out. In the meantime I thought I would post some pictures of my now fat feet and to any of you who see me at church on Sundays, I apologise for the flip flops.

This is my right foot. It was just barely starting to swell at my ankle though it is enough swelling you can no longer see the inside ankle, instead, the inside ankle is a mass of swelling. You can also notice the good sized lump about at my instep which is another lump/mass, not swelling.
This is a picture of both of my feet together so you can see the significant amount of sweeling to my left foot. My ankle on both sides of the foot is now covered up and I officially have the "roll" around the front. The swelling on my left foot is all the way to my toes and feels really tight. You can also see some of the redness on my left leg and a newly starting nodule just above the ankle of my right foot.
This is a picture of the outside of my left foot. You can see the swelling all the way to my toes in this pic and also how bad it is around the heel. These pictures were taken on Saturday and since then I have had many more nodules pop up on my knees, ankles and shins and the swelling is of course continuing to swell. Luckily though, these are the only places I have lumps right now.