June 2019

 June brought LOTS of swimming this year. Our beautiful kiddos all were on the swim team "The Olympia Otters", and did wonderfully! Kael, Eden and Elara all competed in the competitions. I'm so proud of how much they each improved swimming this year.

The first meet was Saturday June 1st.

Poor Kael was throwing up the night before and wasn't able to compete, and Connor didn't compete at all because he wasn't able to swim across the pool yet. However, by the end of June Connor could officially swim 25 meters without any help at all!

Here are some photos of the two girls at the first meet.

I volunteered at the 6 and under tent for most of the competitions to be with Elara.

I think they all enjoyed being on a team and making friends just as much as they love swimming.

When not at swim team or swim competitions you could still find the kids SWIMMING at our community pool.

One day we made it to the library to get some summer reading books. They had clowns doing face painting and balloon making, so obviously the kids had a blast!

 Eden really loved learning to bake things with her easy bake oven this summer.

Swim meet #2 happened and Kael was ready!

 They let the kids write funny stuff on them with black marker. Eden always wrote Bulbasaur and Pikachu. Elara loved having Poplio on her back.

Eden got a 5th place ribbon the first meet for a medley relay. The second meet Kael and Elara got some ribbons.

 Heidi introduced the kids to kiwi and other fun fruits like mango and dragon fruit, but their favorite is officially kiwi now.

 Grammy came for 2 weeks to have fun with us. Somehow we didn't get any pictures!

 Kael and Eden became pros at diving in the pool.

Birthday celebrations for Sharice were on the 16th.
We went to a movie and I got spoiled rotten again. We went to a movie and I got a jello poke cake.
I'm pretty sure we didn't see Detective Pikachu for my birthday, but we did go in May with Dad. This picture will have to suffice my birthday was AWESOME. I just can't remember it.

On June 19th we took the kids bowling with Grammy. Eden got two strikes in a row and we all started cheering and celebrating. I looked around and asked, "Where's Connor?!" And at that very moment I looked back and Connor picked up a 14 pound bowling ball off the rack and dropped it on his middle finger...

It was bad.

Poor Eden couldn't get her 3rd strike after that. We tried playing a while longer, but I took Connor home and then took him for an x-ray. Sure enough his poor finger was broken straight down the middle of the bone making Connor our first kiddo to break a bone.

Poor little dude was so tough. Even with tylenol and ibuprofen he woke up a TON during the night in a lot of pain.

 He became our little ninja turtle and had 3 fingers.

 You would think that breaking your finger would stop you from swimming. Oh no. The very next day he wanted to get back in the water. So, we let him. 

And he even jumped off the diving board.

No stopping this kid.

Kael found a gross dead dragonfly.

And then, we went to the river with the Pinkston's. It was so much fun!

The last swim meet was June 24th. I'm so proud of all 4 kids. They worked SO hard and improved SO much!

The kids earned lots of ribbons and already can't wait for next summer to compete again and see if they can add more to their collection.

By the time June was done I was ready for a break from swimming though. Even though we still went to the community pool lots in July and August. I think I can officially say June 2019 had the most swimming we have ever done!