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Payton (her friend from school)

Philip & Madison
Swimming

Sisters

Happy girl!!

Weekend Warriors

We had a jammed packed weekend...I am really ready for vacation...getting harder for me to move around (8 weeks and counting~or if anything like Madison more like 5 weeks~YIKES!). We had not 1 but 2 garage sales- one on Saturday and one on Sunday, then went couch shopping, out to dinner, and to a birthday party. Here are some photos from my high school friend Katie's son Brian's 6th birthday party!

Swimming with Daddy at the party!

See all the kiddos...I think 18 was the final count. They had a blast!

Playing with Brian's cousin Sarah. These two became fast friends. They are only 1 month apart!

Swimming Lessons

Madison just finished her first set of swimming lessons for the summer. We enrolled her in a "jump-start" session with private lessons with Ms. Larissa. It was great. She loved the water, got swimming much more than ever before and by Wednesday was trying to jump off the edge away from her teacher (making me nervous from behind the viewing gate)...All in all totally worth it. She was swimming to the edge by herself and starting to use her scoopers (arms) and kickers more correctly!! Hopefully we will have a chance to practice these skills before her next set of lessons in August, which are semi-private.
Both her mommy and Auntie Katie were fish when we grew up, so I think it is in her genes!

1st week of summer = FUN!!

Well my first week of summer vacation is over and wow was it a great one...

We went to another week of swim lessons with Philip (which she loved!)

a library class "Mother Goose on the Loose"

(she had to buckle her monkey in the car while we went inside)

a gymnastics class

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a playdate with a little friend, played with the neighbor, who is moving tomorrow =(

and went to John's Incredible Pizza!

That place is cool, even has a roller coaster inside the building.

**Let's hope that the next few months off are this fun!

Swimming Lessons

Here is Madison tonight at swim lessons. She loves the water and the "water slide".

Swimming Lessons

We started swim lessons this week and they are a HUGE hit! Madison loves the water, just like her mom and auntie Katie. We lived in the water when we were kids. On Monday she threw a major fit when it was time to get out...I guess it is better than throwing a fit not wanting to get in the water. Tonight she did great, they practiced jumping in and then turning around to hang on to the edge and climb out...no problem, she jumped right in under water and tried hard to get to the edge. She is doing great.