The Family Blog

Apparently I'm not just slacking on the blogging lately...I've been slacking on the picture-taking too. Hmmm.

I have only a few.

Autumn is finally doing better with solid foods. She's still not too fond of pureed stuff (we've offered applesauce and yogurt) but she did like ice cream. Kind of a lot. :) However she's doing the finger foods. She ate half a Nutri-Grain bar twice last week:


We've been playing quite a bit on the new Wii Fit Plus the Alabamaws blessed me with for my birthday:

Thanks again, Maws!

Autumn being cute:


At church nearly two weeks ago Autumn picked up a cold. She then gave it to Dalton. And last Friday night (a week ago now) Jason woke up feeling miserable and feverish too. Well, not too long after he woke up...Dalton woke up: puking. And puked some more. And E had a round of it. And I was sick on the other end. M.I.S.E.R.A.B.L.E. It was a rough night. We had to skip soccer except Jason coaches D's team so he had to show up and then find someone to cover for him.

We had a very lazy day and little Diddles even fell asleep on the couch:

Easton seemed to have faired the best through all of it and Jason missed the GI stuff all together. Whew.

We also had to skip church because of still running fevers. So we had some quiet time around the house. Dalton is back on a puzzle kick after months of not really doing them. You might remember he's a bit of a puzzle prodigy. Well, at not quite 3 and a half he is rocking the 70-100 piece puzzles labeled for 5+:


I can't really remember what else there is to report on. We finished up gymnastics last week. We've still got swimming lessons twice a week. Dalton is doing great in them (he's our more timid, sensible child). He's going to pass this session. His teacher says he's doing great. There is an Autumn in his class! Just this last week I saw him willingly doing "bobs" which is what the teachers call it when the kids hang onto the side of the pool and lower themselves into the water to cover the tippy top of their head. And Dalton does that now! They do a bunch repeatedly "bob"bing in and out like that.

Plus, he's quite the ladies man. His teacher just loves him and invited him to the hot tub after class once. The sign says they want you to be 6 so I never let the boys go in but if the teacher was asking for him who am I to stop them? So both boys got to hop in and D's teacher held him on her lap. Well the next time, his teacher wasn't there but some other teacher was in the hot tub and was like, "Dalton! Dalton! You're the cutest one! Come see me!" and pulled him onto her lap. (No idea how she knows him...I guess just from him being 'the cutest one'?) She was with one of her teacher friends and was having Dalton show off his smile to the other teacher going, "Isn't he so cute?" This mama would have to agree. :)

Then Easton...well, he's doing awesome as well. He's been able to swim (even coming up for breaths) since last summer and this summer he's working on refining his technique. His teacher is fabulous and really seems to embrace Easton's, um, "energy". And he's great about working with Easton at his ability because he's so far ahead of the other kids in his class somehow. Those kids do not share in Easton's fearlessness and so Tyler (the teacher) is always using Easton as the example, "Let's watch Easton" which doesn't go to E's head but clearly goes to mine, hee hee! (My brag...my blog, remember?) Easton is working on refining his techniques like side breathing and swimming long distances. Tyler always shouts something to me during lessons it seems, like about how brave E is (or how crazy on another day). One time he remarked on E's stamina and the next day said his goal was to wear Easton out. He wants to see what Easton does when he gets tired (in the water). We're still waiting. Ha ha ha. One day last week none of the other kids showed up for class so Tyler worked on some diving with Easton. Combining swimming with gymnastics (as you do in diving) is something right up little E's alley. So first Tyler taught him the technique off the side of the pool. Then they moved to those starting platforms that the swim racers use. Then he even dove head first (well, I guess it would technically be his hands that hit the water first) off the diving board many times! E was bummed he wasn't allowed to flip just yet, the goob. Diving classes start at age 6.

I almost want to ask Tyler if he'll be teaching any of the next level up classes so Easton can have him again. He's been soooooo great with/for E. The day they decided to work on diving they swam side-by-side over to the deep end where the diving board is. And when Eastie was diving, Tyler wouldn't even get in the water. He'd stand on the side and give Easton tips and pointers and then just wait for E to swim back to do it again. At class on Wednesday Tyler wanted a kick board for the students but he didn't have one so he sent Easton swimming across the pool to get one from another teacher. I just love watching my little fishies!

Lessons end next week because school starts (for E) the week after that! Cannot believe this summer is about to come to an end...which also means my girl is about to be ONE!

I must go feed her now so have a good weekend, Blogland!