Whew! The first week of swimming lessons is over. We almost didn't make it...I scheduled the 9AM lesson(too early for us), and we've been running and running and still barely making it on time. Something always happens, you know, to impede speediness(this morning I broke my big 2 quart tea pot while it was full of boiling water and loose tea. I need to mop the floor and inside of the bottom cupboards again.)

Anyway, here's Kristine's accomplishments of the week:


Last year the diving board was something of a nemesis; but this year, she's jumping off as if she's done it all her life.


She's swimming a lot quicker from one end of the pool to the other. Last year she was always the last one to arrive, and often had to be towed by the teacher. Now she's almost always the third or fourth out of ten. And using all of her arms and legs. Not chatting so much. She's pretty proud of that.

Another thing she's pretty proud of is that she's undressing and showering and dressing all by herself this year. In past years, I've done it for her thinking I could keep her on task rather than gawking at all the other little kids gawking at her (it usually didn't work very well, and I was crabby by the time she was dried and dressed and ready to go). This year I decided she needs to learn to do it herself. And she's doing great! Slow, but steady dressing completely under her towel (LOL where did she get that modesty?)--I should get a picture. She told her sweet Papa the other day that it's really hard to stay under that towel, but she'd rather do that than have all the little boys (under 5 years old) stare at her (!). I guess she's growing up a little.