Swimming

We have really been enjoying swimming this year.  The boys are at the top of their age groups and doing well.  And having a lot of fun.  Norah plays with the teenage girls during the meets and loves all the attention.  And they love their little cheerleader cheering for them at the end of the lane. 

 Colin has made it to Divisionals once and in our league after Divisionals there is the All Star meet.  He is determined to make it to All Stars this year and to do well he needs to swim at least an 18 second butterfly.  But his goal is a 16 second butterfly. Right now he has a 22sec so he's so close but those last few seconds are really hard to take off.   I have taken him a few times to the ymca after dinner to give him another practice.  Its fun to see him so focused.  We got their ribbons the other day and its never been better.  Very patriotic with all red, white and blue ribbons (blue is first, red second and white third place)  Colin got a purple 4th place ribbon but he noticed that his time on that 4th place ribbon was 3 seconds faster in breastroke so he didn't discount it like he used to.  Its all for times right now.

He does need help on his dives.  The ymca wont let us practice dives so I might look for a private swim lesson just to give him more practice on his dives.  Joel needs work too.  They did fun relays at the end of practice the other day and the kids had to bellyflop and I think that was Joel's best dive so I might tell him to do that in the swim meet. 

Its been really fun for the kids to watch the Olympic trials this summer and not to brag but my cousin was swimming in them! 

So fun to see my cousin on tv! 

We've watched her race several times already! The kids cheer loud every time. So proud of you Hannah!! The kids are in awe. Colin's worst stroke is backstroke and he had to swim it in a race the Tuesday after Hannah swam. I told him he was part Gouger too. He went and got second and was just 0.15 behind the kid who got first. 

She swam on Monday and that Saturday before Colin would tell all his fellow competitors behind the lanes that his cousin was swimming in the Olympic trials.  Nothing like a little intimidation to psych the other swimmers out. 

We have three more weeks of the regular season and then hopefully two more after that if we make it to divisionals and all stars!