Saturday

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Overnight our Saturdays have switched from baseball to swimming.  Scott is the only one swimming this season.   Kira is a good swimmer but is scared to swim with her little group or at meets so I am just going to teach her to swim this year and hope that next year she will want to swim on swim team when she matures a bit.  Tyler doesn't want to swim but asked to sign him up for the next meet, so we shall see.  We had the 9&Under Invitational which Scott did great at.  Danny was off which was so nice.  I got to see some swimmers I used to coach that are now swimmers and many familiar coaches and swimmers.  It is always fun to be in the east bay again.  Scott wasn't entered in the meet because they didn't get our entry addition.  They got him into some empty lanes and I was proud of him for racing.  Usually he swim slow if he doesn't have kids to race.  So that is an improvement.  He went a best time in his free 31.9 and was just a little bit off his other races which was great considering he was racing himself.  The best part was that he was happy no matter what.  He just missed a record he was going for by 3 hundreths and laughed.  The old Scott would have probably gotten upset.  Scott hates 50 fly, did a nice build up an was happy when he got a third in fly and is getting a little more comfortable swimming it each time he races.  Overall super proud of his maturity in having fun and not getting upset over what he places but how he swims.  

After swim we usually rush off to some activity whether it is a birthday party, get together, co-op or something.  Dedicating Sunday to church and family means saturday is usually fun filled.  We went to Jonathon and Christophers birthday party which is always a blast.  It is always for the whole family which is so nice and great to catch up with friends and see our kids play.  The backyard is a great place to play with the coolest hand built ship.  The kids had a blast playing in the water.  Parker is growing up so much!!  Love that little man and my big man so much!








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