Haha, good question!
#1 - Swimming Lessons
Alright. Well, even though my adventures at the gym are over currently (I couldn't find the time to go, so I gave up my membership), Andrew is still signed up for 5 months worth of swimming lessons. Hurray! Really, we wanted him to have the lessons over the summer so we could take him to our apartment complex's pool and he'd feel more comfortable in it, but that didn't happen. :(
Andrew has had 5 lessons so far, and he's loving it! I'm seeing a little bit of improvement, mostly that he's not as afraid of the water, he's trying pretty much everything the teacher asks him to do, and he's actually wearing the goggles now. It took my mom bribing him with lunch from the gym's cafe afterwards to wear them, but hey, it gets them over his eyes, and that's exactly what I want.
Here are a couple fun pictures of the lessons in progress:
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| Working on floating |
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| Going after some rings on the pool's floor |
#2 - This Last Weekend
Some pretty sweet things happened this weekend. The first being General Conference. Wasn't it amazing? The bits and pieces that I heard (thank you Andrew and David...) were pretty great. If you missed it or just want to listen to bits of it to learn more about Mormons, click HERE.
The second really cool thing I was able to do was going to an Ohio State football game with my older sister, Susette. It was AWESOME! Our seats were the closest I'd ever been to the field before (not super-close, but still!), the crowd was record-breaking in numbers and was so loud, and we WON! Not to mention that the marching band performed a sweet half-time show, despite a kicker from the opposite team trying to ruin it by practicing right in the middle of the field during Block Ohio, a huge no-no considering the tradition behind Block Ohio AND that the band was just announced to be celebrating their 100-year anniversary! Ok, I am not bitter about that anymore...
Here's a video of the performance. The theme was classic video games (Mario, Zelda, Tetris, etc). Around 6 minutes, they do this AMAZING running horse. I know it's long, but you have to watch it! And to think - they learned this all in like 2 weeks! Crazy!
The third thing we did this last weekend was on Monday, since everyone except my bro-in-law Josh had Columbus Day off of work, the family worked our way down to Hocking Hills to go on a hike in the stroller-friendly trail of Ash Cave. It was beautiful! The temperature was a little on the cool side, but the weather was great and the colors were gorgeous! Here are a few pictures I took:
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| Haha, Jason asked me not to upload this to Facebook, and I'm not! Muahaha. His face is hilarious, but it's the only one of all three of them looking at the camera at the same time... |
Day 17 - What do you want to be when you get older?
I'm currently doing what I've wanted to do when I was younger - being a wife and mom. It's hard every single day, and some days are MUCH better than others, but it's something I know I was meant to do. I don't love every little thing about it, but I love being at home with my boys and knowing I can be there for them.
As for when they get a little older and I'm not taking care of them, I'd like to go back to college. There are a few things I'm interested in: geography, although I'm no good at science; photography, though I've never really been good at that either; and family and consumer sciences, though, again, it's nothing I'm spectacular at. In all honesty, I would want to go back to school for those things so I can learn to be good at them. They're things I'm interested in and currently know just about zilch about. Who's to say you already have to be good at something to learn more about it?
Secret: In the shower, I do everything in the same order every time. If I skip something or do it in a different order, it totally throws me off and I feel like I've forgotten something.
PS. I think I'm not going to do the "me quotes" anymore. It takes too long to do a quote at the beginning, a "day challenge", a secret, AND a quote from my old blog. It's just too much. So it's getting the ax.
ok 1 i miss ohio in the fall....boooooo
ReplyDelete2 i was so bad at swimming lessons when i was little! i found out when we lived in arizona that it was the law that kids take lessons bc it's always so hot that every home and apartment had a pool. at least in mesa...