Life As We Know It

Life As We Know It

Thursday, June 02, 2016

Swim team

This little girl has been waiting years for her turn to be on the swim team. Wasn't she just this tiny toddler??? Poor thing has sat for years every day and every Saturday in the summers watching her boys swim in the water. 

This year she is finally old enough

Swim team started Tuesday night. I wasn't sure if they would have guppies (which is the group Norah is in) so I emailed the team and found out that afternoon right as our neighbors middle schoolers got off the bus. Norah ran outside and yelled to the whole bus "I have guppies tonight!" And then ran back inside while the boys were left wondering what guppies was.

After dinner Norah started to get a little nervous and started saying she didn't want to go but I told her I would sit near the pool next to her and she would be fine. 



She only got out once right at the beginning when it was chaotic (the first week is always chaos figuring out skill level and where kids should go) but I made her get right back in and then she loved it. 


She has guppies every Tuesday and Thursday. It's going to be nice for me to be able to sit and talk with the other moms for longer than a few minutes because I'm usually playing and chasing after Norah.

The boys loved it too. Colin begged to go last night but we skipped it.  He is taking sols this week and the bad part about swim is we can't swim until 8-9 at night because of pool times and we don't get home until 9:30. So there will be some late late nights until school gets out. 

Joel was convinced he is now 7 because he swam in the 7-8 lane. It took me an hour to convince him he was still 6. He's been swimming for two years and we also did conditioning practice all winter so he is well above the 6&under skill level. It will benefit him this summer in the meets. But sadly to him he is not 7 yet. 

Colin swam 100m and then talked to all his friends. We have the same assistant coaches but a new head coach so the head was getting to know the kids swimming abilities so they didn't do much swimming. That was just fine to Colin as he basically had a social hour! 

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