Lately

Lately it has been really hot here so we either go to the pool or stay in our house.  The past two weeks Leila has had swimming lessons.  We started lessons at the rec center but they just were not pushing her to swim so we signed her up for some private lessons.  Last weeks was super busy because she had private lessons at 10 am and then we would race over to the rec center for another set of lessons.  Leila loved being able to go swimming every single day.  Greydon and I on the other hand got sick of the double lessons, only because we had to sit outside in the heat for about two hours straight.  She has now finished her rec center lessons but still has her private lessons for one more week.

We went to the pool every day after swim lessons, Leila was dying to practice her swimming and Greydon and I needed to cool off afer the lessons

Leila flying into the pool, she has a hard time not doing a big jump into the pool

At one point Leila, Aly and Ryder all lined up on the stairs and wanted Rylee to shoot them in the bum with the water gun

We also spend a lot of time just hanging at home.  Some how Greydon always ends up playing dressup with Leila and I'm pretty sure his favorite toy is the necklace around his neck

Getting ready for swim lessons. The first couple of lessons were hard because she is so dang shy.  She has no fear of the water but people scare her.  The first day she wouldn't do a single thing she just sat on the step the whole time, but each day she tried a new skill and by the end she was doing everything the teacher asked her to do

Leila is finally swimming but not because of the rec center lessons but from the private.  After 3 private lessons Leila could swim.  I am confident that if Leila fell into the pool she would be able to get herself out.  She can swim several feet from the edge and back, she can also jump in, come up and get air and then start swimming for the side of the pool.  It was so fun to see how quickly she learned and progressed.  Her favorite thing to do is dive for toys.  I can put a toy on the bottom of the shallow end and Leila can dive in and get it.

We also play in the backyard with the hose and rocks.  Both kids could play out there for hours.  Greydon loves the rocks and Leila loves collecting big buckets of rock and water

We also have plenty of this (grumpy face)

And over the weekend we went to Cafe Rio with the Karrens and Turners

On Saturday night we ventured out into the heat and went to the drive in movies.  Leila was so excited, the whole drive there she kept yelling, "I'm so excited".  She stayed awake for most of the first movie but was totally asleep for the second and Greydon was asleep the whole time.  We had a lot of fun but it was extremely hot, when we headed home at 1:30 am it was still 92 degrees (sorry no pictures, my camera batteries were dead on both cameras), it will be fun to go back when it is a little cooler.