The first meet this year was on home terf.....or water....at the Springville pool. Lincoln placed 5th in Backstroke, 2nd in Breaststroke, and 2nd in the IM. Ivan placed 2nd in Freestyle, and 2nd in Breaststroke. Adelia placed 2nd in Freestyle, and 2nd in Backstroke. So I super successful day for the Swan Swimmers.
Finally, FINALLY after two years of working on it, Aaron and I finished our back wall downstairs. It looks so good, I'm in love with it. I'm secretly plotting how to get rid of the big TV stand/bookcases that are so huge because they hide half the wall, and now that the wall is done I want to be able to see it! But here's the half you can see. The colors look kinda funny in the picture though. Now if I could just convince Aaron to let me paint the ceiling white.......
My Happy Cal is 9 months old at the beginning of June. How has he been out as long as he was in? Crazy! He's still as easy going as ever. This is him taking a nap during swim team practice. I suppose you do what you gotta do when you are baby #6. I gave him his first hair cut this week and it's darling. It makes him look older. But I never was one of those moms that get emotionally attached to baby hair. I can't stand a baby mullet, so I always give my kids hair cuts pretty early on.
Ivan and Lincoln went to Cub Scout Day Camp last week. Ivan came home with three pocket knives. My neighbor sent me this picture of Ivan and two of his buddies from our ward sitting out on her back patio whittling. I love it!
Adelia and Rue spent all of one afternoon making a little fairy tree house out of cardboard and "nature". Haha! Adelia has been WAY into the word nature lately, and it makes me laugh, but it also makes me happy. She made herself a homemade notebook and everywhere we go she finds "pieces of nature" to glue into it. She keeps a glue stick and a pencil in her purse and carries the purse around with her everywhere we go. She also hoards granola bars and packs of graham crackers in there too....not as happy about that one. But I will admit it's slightly humorous when we're sitting at one of the big boys' baseball games and she reaches in her purse and starts dishing out snacks to the littles in her best "mom voice."
Ruby has been really into her cape lately. She loves to be Superman....except that when she says it she uses a gruff, raspy/angry voice and it sounds exactly like she's saying "stupid man!" And it cracks me up every single time.
Summer days have been treating us right so far. For the next two weeks the schedule is thus: we wake up and Lincoln and Ivan have tennis at 8:30. My friend Wynter has kids in tennis also, so we get to chat while the littles play on the playground and the bigs play tennis. It's wonderful to start my day with a friend. Then we head over to Swim Team practice, and Ollie has swim lessons at the same time too. So Ruby and Cal and I hang out in the stands for an hour. Then we come home and put Cal to bed, have lunch, then put Rue to bed. The older kids either play outside, or have quiet time, or work on their summer reading. I clean and do chores, or when I don't feel like doing that I step outside to my garden and work there. Once Cal and Rue are up, we have a snack, and then the kids either play with friends, or we go to the library or to the store or to the park. Then we come home and they get to watch a TV show while I make dinner. Aaron comes home, and we eat. Then we head off to whichever baseball or softball games are that night (I have 3 kids playing times two games a week, so we hit six games sometime between Mon and Thurs.) Then we do bed time for the kids, and maybe a small amount of down time for Aaron and I before we also go to bed. We spend minimal time at home, and I prefer it that way, the kids fight less, and we all spend more time outside if we are out and about.
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