Saturday at 6pm the temperature was 103 degrees. We were all in the pool :) obviously.
I'm grateful for nice swimming pools, and kids who are loving the water. All five are making good solid progress on their swimming skills now that we are swimming consistently again. John Paul plunges into the water and gets four or five 'swimming strokes' of progress before starting to sink :) He definitely still needs plenty of supervision and is a long way from proficiency but his progress is admirable. And with a pair of water wings he's happy for hours.
Our newest water bug is Isaac. He can hold his breath for so very long. But coming up to take a good breath and continuing his swim was the challenge. He's made such progress even these past two days and I'm glad I no longer have to wonder just how long he can go without breathing :) He earned this new swimming mask as a prize for completing some pretty significant challenges in the pool.
After two chlorine filled days we opted to go lower key this afternoon. Three of the kids needed their bike seats raised (those pesky growing kiddos!) so Matt pulled out a few tools and we headed out to ride around the complex. John Paul - who ignored his bike for about four months - is back in the saddle and perfecting his starting skills. It's still a bit clunky (basically he gives himself a good push and scrambles to get his feet on the peddles before he wobbles and falls) but he's doing it himself.
We caved and bought Luke a balance bike. He was the sole member of the family (apart from me) without his own two wheeled ride and you know Matt can't resist buying a bike for a child. [Or buying a bike for himself.. but that's another story. haha! He just added a third bike to his fleet! A sweet road bike that he picked up from a friend heading back to America. And in his defense we've tried twice in the past few weeks to buy a used bike for me and it didn't work out both times.... but we're waiting for just the right one to pop up!]
The package with the bike arrived about 6:30 tonight. We were at dinner down the street when I got the phone call from the delivery guy.
[I forgot to get a picture of Luke on his balance bike but I did take this one of him watching the restaurant owner's son cook lamb kabobs. Yum.]
So of course after we got home from dinner we assembled the bike and rode for a bit before heading in for (much needed!) showers and bedtime.
The forecast for the week looks hot and hot so I'm thinking we'll be doing lots of pool time along with some sweaty bike and roller blade outings. Ahhhh summertime. I love it!
1 comment:
That's a big mask on Isaac! Glad to hear they are all making good progress with swimming skills. Know hot and humid curly headed Luke is enjoying having his own bike! Much love to you all - we miss you!
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