Swimming

There is nothing cuter than a kid in goggles and a swim cap

She was so proud to get her own cap

Swimming has been a little rough with the late night practices and then 6am wake up times for school. I've given Colin and Joel an option to go since they still are in school. Joel has surprised us with begging to go every night. He was the same kid we had to bribe to swim each event last year. He is loving being in the 7-8 year old lane.

Last night Colin was exhausted from school. They had field day, an awards ceremony and a carnival all on the same day. Joel had both those too but he begged to go to swim practice. So Colin stayed stayed home and went to bed and I took Joel and Norah. 

We got to swim practice and Colin's best friend on the team, a boy named Isaac, came running up to us asking where Colin was. Now Isaac mom told me last week that he had been devastated to miss one night of swim practice because Colin would be there and he wouldn't get to see Colin. She said he was in tears. 

So Isaac is looking around for Colin and I told him Colin wasn't coming but before I could say anything more Joel pipes up. "Colin's not coming. He doesn't want to swim anymore. He's never coming back" and then ran off to play with friends.  

None of that is true and Joel had no idea how much Isaac looks forward to seeing Colin at practice.

I'm still laughing about that this morning. 

I did tell Isaac that Colin would be there tonight and assured him that Colin was still on the team.