Monday, July 09, 2007
Swimming
This weekend was all about water sports. On Saturday we went to the pool for most of the afternoon. Our neighbor, Lizz, joined us. Here in Kansas its HOT (in the 90s everyday), so we spent most of the day in the water. We had a picnic at the pool (peanut butter and jelly sandwiches). Lizz brought delicious watermelon.
Anna is the real surprise this swimming season. Its like a switch has been flipped inside her. In her May swim lessons, she started floating on her back by herself. That's ancient history now. She swimming underwater, staying underwater with her eyes open (and having tea parties), swimming a pretty decent version of the crawl, and swimming on her back. Its amazing how much she's progressed.
On Sunday, we hosted a water balloon fight. Nora and I spent about half an hour filling water balloons. Nora called a bunch of our neighbors (with kids) to come on over. We also hooked up the slip-n-slide, ran the yard sprinklers, and filled the wading pool. Squirt guns made an appearance too. We parents sat in the shade and watched the fun, iced-tea in hand.
Pierce and I also finished our trainscape project. Last week I bought some Styrofoam insulation that we, temporarily, mounted his model train set on. This weekend we took the insulation outside and spray painted it to look like it was covered with grass. We remounted the track, this time permanently, then glued houses, signals, people and livestock to the "ground". We also created and painted a tunnel made from spare insulation. Pierce did most of the layout and gluing, with just a little help from me. The whole setup easily slides under his bed when he's not using it -at least it will when we remount the telephone poles. They're currently too tall to slide under the bed.
-Eric (Dad)
Anna is the real surprise this swimming season. Its like a switch has been flipped inside her. In her May swim lessons, she started floating on her back by herself. That's ancient history now. She swimming underwater, staying underwater with her eyes open (and having tea parties), swimming a pretty decent version of the crawl, and swimming on her back. Its amazing how much she's progressed.
On Sunday, we hosted a water balloon fight. Nora and I spent about half an hour filling water balloons. Nora called a bunch of our neighbors (with kids) to come on over. We also hooked up the slip-n-slide, ran the yard sprinklers, and filled the wading pool. Squirt guns made an appearance too. We parents sat in the shade and watched the fun, iced-tea in hand.
Pierce and I also finished our trainscape project. Last week I bought some Styrofoam insulation that we, temporarily, mounted his model train set on. This weekend we took the insulation outside and spray painted it to look like it was covered with grass. We remounted the track, this time permanently, then glued houses, signals, people and livestock to the "ground". We also created and painted a tunnel made from spare insulation. Pierce did most of the layout and gluing, with just a little help from me. The whole setup easily slides under his bed when he's not using it -at least it will when we remount the telephone poles. They're currently too tall to slide under the bed.
-Eric (Dad)
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