Elf is doing GREAT at skating. I'm so proud. She's working hard, being diligent, specifically pushing herself to try on the hard things in order to improve ( Read more... )

It's the last week for the Park District pool at the end of the street and also the last week of swimming lessons. Today Elf wanted to go to Open Swim, but my swimming suit was missing. Ben didn't want to go and it waws AWFUL for him to have to change clothes and interrupt his game ( Read more... )

I look at this icon and...WOW, their hair is darker this summer!

Ben is obssessively playing Plants vs. Zombies ("There's a zombie on your lawn") as many minutes of the day as he can manage ("Brains are quite rich in cholesterol"). He's really quite skilled at the video games and has an excellent instinctive grasp of them. He is the one usually ( Read more... )

Two summers ago, my daughter taught herself a pretty decent approximation of a front crawl but minus the coming-up-for-air part ( Read more... )

I have now downloaded all the nifty stuff I've been saving in my nifty phone (yay, Husband's Bluetooth connector toy!) and so I have lovely new icons from the photos in the phone AND have saved the little movies of Elf swimming to my AOL space ( Read more... )

This morning we went to the AMAZING local pool in Cape. It was family day/morning, so it cost all of $4.50 for all of us to go as long as we wanted to. The humidity was at reasonable levels. It was in the 70s (pretty sure the LOW 70s), sunny, and the public park pool was surrounded by trees and the cool that they emanate. It was glorious. It ( Read more... )

So, I exercised yesterday and today.

Today, for the first time, I stuffed myself into my swimsuit and tried the pool. It's 25 yards in length, and I did 25 laps (rotating various strokes, and with breaks to catch my breath). I learned several things:

• I have apparently gotten back a partial ability to breathe while doing a front crawl without ( Read more... )