swimming lessons

Both girls started swimming lessons this past Monday. It was a week long program where they went everyday for 30 minutes each.

For Kelsey's class, I would get in the water with her to sing songs and explore moving through the water. On Monday she started off crying hard for the first 15 minutes of her class then calmed down and did great. On Tuesday, she didn't cry at all and loved singing the songs with movements and splashing. The rest of the week she did great besides enjoying getting dunked and floating on her back :)

Macey did not enjoy much of her first swimming class on Monday :( It's a class where it's 3 & 4 yr olds with a teacher and helper. The kids are asked to hold onto the edge in the deep end as long as they can until it's their turn to work with the teacher. Macey flipped out about this! She screamed and screamed, trying to climb out constantly instead of relaxing and kicking her legs. By Tuesday, she learned to trust her teacher and swam great with her. She still wasn't fond of holding onto the edge. By the end of the week, she held onto the edge for a good portion of the class, floated on her back relaxed and used her arms and legs to swim. She made some HUGE steps during the week :)

That IS a smile :)

"Talking" to Nemo underwater

dance class

Here are some pictures of Macey at dance class. The first day she was hesitant about the warm-up and stretches and wanted to watch on the sideline, but now she's a dancing queen :) It's been fun to watch her get more confident as the classes have gone on. Tonight will be our last class already. She's now asking for her own dance shoes because she says she's going to dance a lot when she gets older. We'll have to see? Next year she can take the tap/ballet class all on her own :)

I took pictures today at swimming lessons and will post those soon. Now that's another story :)

haircut

Last week Macey got her first official haircut! I have been trying to trim it up until now, but it's so long and THICK that I just can't do it anymore. Macey is a child that is quite fearful of many things and new experiences so whenever we talk about going to get her haircut at a salon, she refuses. I am very thankful for my new friend Denim who cuts hair and was able to come over to Elizabeth's house to cut both our little girls' hair along with Elizabeth's. (I will be next!) Macey was the first one to go and sat very quiet and still through the whole thing with no tears! Here are some pictures and the end result with a happy little girl!

lovin' it!

These past few warm days, we've been outside a lot and I have MANY pictures to show for it. I may have set a new record for the most pictures in a post but I just couldn't narrow it down anymore. As you will see the girls have been loving the new sandbox, running through the hose (we need to get a sprinkler!), riding bikes, and playing around.

Running through the water.

Kelsey especially loved it!

Her way of saying, "Thank you dad, or spray some more?"

Macey thought this up and Kelsey loves it.

I'm surprised Kelsey never puked!

Loves her "ing!"

Wearing their favorite attire these days.

And I'm not kidding when I say Macey is

obsessed with wearing her lovely "too small Dora suit".

Kelsey with her favorite things: Baby in a bucket, phone, and hat.

My great garage sale find for only $3!

I'm thinking there might be a lot of picture posts this summer. I'm getting a little obsessed with summer picture taking!

pigtails, power outage & playgroup

We went last Saturday to Decatur to cheer on the Magi at baseball regionals. It was a beautiful day and they had many fans including Jason's whole family coming down, but they couldn't quite pull off a win, they lost 5-6. They had a great season and Jason had a lot of fun helping out.

Now his days are completely free until later this month when he starts taking an online grad class through Western. He's been busy working in the yard, tearing out a lot of trees, bushes, etc. along with building the girls a sandbox! I'm very excited about this even if it means a lot of sand in the house. He's on his way to go get the second load of sand right now to finish it off. Pictures to follow.

I have realized that Kelsey's hair is getting long enough to put up in pigtails. Not sure if it's her look yet or not but it's fun to try new things since it's getting longer. What do you think?



Macey has a few favorite clothes, and when I'm not looking she goes and changes into these clothes. One outfit is this nice Minnie Mouse pajama top :) She loves her leggings and she was so proud to discover that her black ones match quite nicely. Her other favorite outfit is her Dora bathing suit. She had it on 2 or 3 times throughout the day yesterday. (remember it was rainy and cold yesterday)

Somehow our kitchen/dining room is the running track in our house. The girls LOVE to run and run and run. They laugh so hard at each other as they pass by. It's quite entertaining and it wears them out.

This past week we lost power due to storms. It went out around 8:30pm and we didn't get it back until 1pm the next day. Jason and Darrin had gone golfing all morning so the girls and I had to find stuff to do without power. It was a day of pb&j sandwiches, lots of coloring, books, playdoh, and cleaning.

Elizabeth is in charge of planning the summer playgroups here in Colon. I helped her Thursday morning set up in the elementary gym. (it was suppose to be outside but due to rain she planned for inside stuff) We were sad to see that we were the only ones to show up :(

The kids still had fun though!

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