July part 2

Swimming lessons Second round

Julia really loved her swimming lessons this year but because I wanted to try Surf n’ Swim she got to have swimming lessons a second time around.

I put Julia on level 4. When the teachers were calling their roll and were introducing themselves I noticed a bunch of 10 and 12 year olds being called to her class. She was at the end of the roll and a half a body shorter than everyone else.

While I was trying to find the supervisor to have her transferred from that class I noticed her walking with her class and going to the pool with the big kids. Without complaining she got into the deep water and was beginning to do front crawl like everybody else. She couldn’t even touch the bottom of the pool!

I was very proud of her for trying something as hard without doubting herself. I did however, had here transferred into level 3 which was still mainly for 8 year olds. She did awesome. She swims now. Not only that, she can jump out of the diving board.  We couldn’t be prouder of her.  Thank you Grandma for coming to see her, she really likes showing off

Another First

We usually learn new things and grow a lot during summer time and this year wasn’t the exception for Julia. She wears size S in cloths, size 12 shoes and hates soxs.

She can swim, she can do a running cart wheel, a back bend and is really close to doing a back flip all by herself, but the thing that she is most proud of just happened this month. We got to say goodbye to two good friends of ours. They are left and right training wheels.

Yeap, on July 8th at 6:47 pm, Julia rode her bike like a big girl. I can’t remember how many attempts it took me to learn this skill but it took this girl I’ll say about 4 tries and 3 minutes.

She loves feeling all grown up

Pee Wee sports
I feel bad that we have Julia in swimming lesson, tumbling and pretty soon soccer again. I had to find something for Josh to do. After researching a lot I found a program at the Clearfield aquatic center where they teach kids 3-5 how to play 3 different kind of sports; baseball, football and soccer.

 Josh was one of the smallest kids on his group but I was so proud of him for trying his very best. Of course there were moments when it was better to pay attention to the craw flying nearby or that plane zooming by than the coach but all and all Josh had an awesome time.

 

The best part was that his coach made it necessary for parents to interact with the kids. I think Josh really  enjoyed having all that attention to himself.