swimming lessons

Micah and Connor had their third year of swimming lessons last week.  Connor was in level 1 and Micah was in level 2.  Each of them did really well and passed on to their next levels!!  To pass level 2 Micah had to jump off the diving board and swim all the way across the pool on his back and front.  He was sooo excited that he did it and even let me take a picture of him with his level completed card.  For him to take a voluntary picture is huge right now!

Micah's favorite part besides jumping off the diving board, was the penny hunt that they always do on Friday.  He has finally figured out how to dive under and get something off the bottom.  He brought ten pennies to throw in and got to take home 12 that he got from the bottom of the pool.  

This was the first year that Connor didn't cry at all so that was awesome.  Whenever his teachers told him good job after his turn he would respond "yep cause I know how to swim."  Mercy sakes that child!

finger painting

I decided to introduce the boys to fingerpainting  yesterday.  Micah and Connor had probably done it before, maybe but I don't remember.  I water color with the two of them a  lot even at Logan's age but Micah wasn't fond of getting his hands dirty and Connor was too fond of getting his hands dirty to do much fingerpainting.  

The good news is all three of them loved it and didn't destroy the place too much.  Logan was tentative at first but ended up going crazy and only put it in his mouth once.  SUCCESS!!  

They were  making Father's Day cards for Papa (my dad) and Poppy (Zach's dad).  I spelled out their names in painter's tape for C and L so when it was peeled off their names were in white. Micah wanted do his own thing and made a colorful one for Papa and a dark reddish with a Georgia G for Poppy.

playmates

I have many favorites regarding my boys but one of the top top top favorites is how much they genuinely like each other and like playing with each other.

I have to break up stuff every once in awhile like when Logan is chasing one of them with a sword, or when M or C loses their temper with the other.  But most of the time they just want to hang out, talk, make a mess,  play sports, etc with just each other and it is a blessing to watch.

picture time

I have an almost identical picture of Micah taking pictures with this same camera at almost the same age.  There is also a video of Micah saying "It's Picture Time!!"  So Cute! 

And just as cute is the Logi Bear saying Cheese and taking my picture in the kitchen :)

summer list 2013

We made our annual Summer Fun List last week and have already checked a few off!!

that boy

 I walked in, saw it and said "What are you doing!?"

He replied "bash" (bath), said Cheese when I whipped out my phone and then back to what he was doing.

zoo break

Nana (Zach's mom) came to see us for a few days last week to help with the unpacking and cleaning and entertaining the boys during the unpacking and cleaning :)  For a break we headed to Zoo Atlanta on Thursday morning.  The weather was over cast and cool so basically the perfect zoo weather!

The highlights were seeing the new adorable baby gorilla and watching the tigers pacing in front of the windows.

The not so highlights were watching the otters and then watching Logan chunk his ba ba (paci) into the otter water.  Sometimes that boy...

If they were hanging in a museum I would title the next pictures "Progression of a picture with three boys"

I finally gave up and just took one of Logan.  He still didn't look!