I'm Waaaaaaay Behind! And Swimming!

I was doing so good at the beginning of the year keeping up on this blog, but then I fell behind because I'm not so good at posting videos on here (I usually have Christopher do it for me).  Then because the time lapsed this just fell to the wayside.  I hope to keep up on this more!

SWIMMING!

Anderson on his last day of class with the instructors

Nathan jumping off the diving board

We decided to try the boys out with some new swim lessons this year and we heard about the program called The Water Whisperer that we thought that we would try out.  I was originally only going to put Nathan in the classes, but I decided that we would give Anderson some lessons too.  It turns out that Anderson is the chillest baby ever when put in the water.  I think that it also helped that the water felt like a bathtub and was so relaxing!  We were doing the teacher training lessons, so all of the new swim instructors were learning how to teach this method with our kids (plus more that signed-up).  Anderson did awesome and never cried!  There were a lot of other kids that did cry.  He even fell asleep once while in the pool.  The instructors said that they wished all kids were as good as him in the pool.

Nathan was being Mr. Shy Guy, but he was still winning the instructors over.  It was a little frustrating for me because I knew that he could swim from his previous lessons, but because he was being shy he wasn't doing moves in the pool that I knew that he could.  The lessons are two weeks (M-F) for 20 minutes a day and it wasn't until the second week where he opened up and started really swimming.  By the end of the two week lessons I wasn't feeling good that he could swim by himself.  We were working on him taking breaths, but he just didn't get it.  I decided to enroll him in another set of 10 classes to further his swimming and that really helped!  By the end he was jumping off of the diving board and swimming to the side of the pool to get out.  He was diving for toys, with a little assistance from the instructors, he was swimming taking some breaths (we are still working on this at home), and he was floating on his back and doing some swimming on his back!  It was great to see this and I know that this summer is going to be a lot of fun with him in our pool (he's already doing so well with the little swimming that we've done so far).

If you would like to know prices and what my thoughts were on this program send me a message!

Here are some videos:

Nathan swimming backwards 

Nathan diving for some pool toys

Nathan swimming across the pool on his own!

That is it for this post!  I have to say that the way Blogger is set-up now is so much more user friendly then what it used to be!

-Heather

First Haircut

Anderson got his first haircut today. I'm a little sad about it because I know that once he got a haircut it was one more thing to make him look less like a baby. Anderson's hair in the front was getting too long & getting in his eyes, so I knew that he needed to get his hair cut. My intention was to get his bangs trimmed & keep the rest as is. That didn't end up happening because it looked funny, so I had her trim his whole hair :(. So long little curls and hello toddler!

Before his haircut

Giving him a lollipop made him sit still for the haircut! He loved the lollipop & hated when I took it away when he was done with the haircut!

The finished look!

Beach Day!

We had to make a trip down to Christopher's office and since it is so close to the beach we decided to stop & play awhile. The boys loved it and especially the water!!!

Museum Fun

We went to the Zimmer's Children's Museum and it was a ton of fun! The boys were having a blast & didn't want to leave. Nathan especially loved playing in the ambulance & "driving" it!

The sweetest!

I was putting Nathan down for bed & I gave him a goodnight kiss and he tells me, "Mom, I smile when you give me kisses." I sure do love that kid!

It's the Middle of Winter

And yet it was 85 today!

Fun Stuff

I don't have any pictures of what I am about to write about because it would have just looked like I have a messy house and I don't want to give that impression to anyone :)

Right now, there are very few toys that are around our house. This is because Nathan has a tendency to throw them when he gets angry. He particularly likes to throw them in Anderson's direction. The new rule in our house is that if a toy is thrown it goes away. Well, almost all of the toys are away. We could have given Nathan a chance to "win" back his toys, but he's been doing fine without them and I have read that less is better. With that said, the "game" that Nathan has been playing is called, "Selling Presents."

Nathan found where I keep all of my gift bags, tissue paper, and other gift giving related items. He knows that these are what Santa uses to sell gifts. Yes, I did write sell. Nathan is under the impression that Santa sells you gifts instead of giving them to you. We have told him that Santa doesn't sell them, but it never seems to stick :). Nathan will go and get a gift bag and load it up with whatever he finds around the house and then he will come and deliver it to Christopher, Anderson, or myself. I believe that he delivered over 20 presents to us! Anderson was also very excited about this game and would pick-up some presents and give them to Christopher or myself. Seeing Nathan come up with this game that required no toys (well, some of the gifts were toys) was awesome to see!