Swim Crazy

This has been our first week without swim lessons in almost a month and Molly isn't that thrilled that it's over. I should probably be a good mother and take her to my Mom's house for a dip now and then, but I just haven't been into it. As much fun as it is, getting ready for swimming, swimming and then cleaning up after swimming threatens to take up entire day with a two year old. It's worth mentioning that of both of the pools we had lessons in, Marcus beat out the aquatic center, for me anyhow. Yes the paint is chipping, the tiles are cracked and the equipment is old, but as far as where I think she made the most actual progress in learning to swim, Marcus wins. The aquatic center is nicer for sure, but there, we never once got into the big pool and so instead of being able to get her to try to float kick and scoop, I spent my time chasing her around while she ran around in the shallow water. They did have an awesome playground that definitely puts Marcus' froggy pool to shame, but they only let them use it one day and on that day they had some of the older classes using it at the same time which made it a little more difficult to maneuver for the littler ones. Regardless of my opinions though, Molly had fun at both of the pools and it was nice to have something to occupy our time.
Molly and Grayson, the new Parent/ Tot swim class graduates...next stop Preschool swim class!
MMMM! Gotta love iced HFCS (right Michaela?).


But the swim craziness doesn't stop there...no way...it just gets crazier! This past weekend we went to Lorelei's 2nd birthday party and boy was it good times. Lot's of swimming, good food and a giant water slide. After the first time Molly went down I was sure she would be terrified since it ended in a huge uncontrolled, completely submerging, splash in a pretty cold pool of water. Not so. She though it was great and did it two more times. If the getting her up the slide had been easier, we might have done it more. Thankfully there were lots of older girls who were happy to be little helpers to her.

Molly was so embarrassed. She showed up to the party wearing the same thing as the birthday girl...hahaha!

Cleaning up before presents.

Well, you may have noticed that I haven't had a baby yet. I have noticed that for sure. The days before my midwife leaves for her vacation are slowly ticking away and she doesn't have anyone who will cover her so if things don't happen in the next 2 weeks, I'm going to be stuck with the luck of the draw as far as who will be there for the delivery. Not exactly appealing to me.