Swimming Success

Elijah with his friend Todd & his teacher, Ms. Courtney - she was GREAT with him!

We have had big success with Elijah in swimming lessons! It's like something finally clicked and he decided he really could swim on his own. We had him in a 2-week every day class Level 1 and he was scared of even trying anything on his own almost the whole time. Then at the end he started doing better so we decided to do some semi-private lessons with his friend Todd from his class. He had 4 lessons and is completely swimming on his own all the way across the width of the pool! I am so impressed with this place...and he's even almost to Level 3 - all he needs to do is get his breathing down good and he can move up. We may do a few more just to help him get that down, since breathing is pretty important. :-) She has to tap his chest to remind him to bring his head up and take a breath, but other than that, he's got it down! There are a few videos from today at the bottom of him jumping in then swimming, just swimming, floating on his back and diving down about 4 1/2 feet to get a ring with Todd. Don't know what order they're in or why they're at the bottom, and there's no sound, but you'll get the point. :-) One of them starts out sideways and then turns before he dives down to get the ring - again, don't know why. This is my first time to put videos on my blog, and I'm waiting for this little camcorder to arrive in the mail that Jason got on ebay for my birthday - it will allow me to put videos with sound on my blog, YAY!

And as always, here are some random pictures from my camera that are cute. These are for you Mom and for you Aunt Laur-Laur! I know yall miss these guys while you're away for the summer.

Looking up at me from his snuggli

The 2-month sock monkey picture

STRRREEEETCH!!

The double chin we're working on :-)

Elijah said he wanted to be a farmer this day

Aggie baby

Finally...a pretty good smile captured on camera

Judah's first time in the swing

He loved it...put him right to sleep

First time in Bible class at Nana & Grangoat's church

Have a Happy 4th of July! We are going to Camp of the Hills for the weekend, where my mom is spending the summer working with inner-city kids. My sister's family and Jason's family are meeting us there for fireworks, fishing, swimming & boating - should be lots of fun!

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Judah is 2 months old today....sniff, sniff. They grow up too fast!

Request for more pictures

I feel like a terrible blogger lately. I guess I really do have no life right now except for taking care of my two sweet boys because all I seem to have to blog about are pictures of them and what they're doing. :-) Oh well...it's the phase of life I'm in right now! I am helping plan our 10 year high school reunion and some girlfriends and I are planning regular Girls Nights Out so those aren't child-related! :-) Plus we just got tickets to see Coldplay in November and bought their new album on Tuesday - it ROCKS! Okay, back to what you guys really want...here are pictures of the boys and what they've been doing:

Elijah's end-of-season t-ball party was at a spray water park

Judah wore his swim gear, too!

Elijah's took a 2-week every day swim class and did really well - he can swim several feet by himself and float on his back alone. We were so impressed with his progress that we have him enrolled in a few private lessons now.

For Father's Day, I got Jason and Elijah tickets to the FC Dallas soccer game in Frisco. It was both of their first time to go and they had a great time even though it was really HOT!

Here's my little guy smiling

and playing on his activity mat, which he loves!

And here are some of my attempts to get a picture of both of them together. It usually doesn't go very well. :-)

This one is from our Summer Spectacular VBS at church this week - they are studying Jonah this year.

Jason's Birthday

Jason turned 27 on June 7th and his parents took all of us to the Ranger's game on Sat night for his birthday. We had a great time and Judah did amazing!

Okay, a little too close but you get the point - we never take pictures of just the two of us anymore :-)

Elijah's new best friend - Captain, the Ranger's mascot. He LOVED watching him the whole game and then, lo and behold, Captain came and sat by HIM! Elijah thought it was way cool!

Watching the game - such a dedicated fan

That's Nolan Ryan - yes, the "old guy"....I was shocked as well :-)

MMMM, cotton candy, which he ate a little too much of

Watching the game with Nana & Grangoat

On the way home he said he wasn't tired - I'll let you be the judge

Happy Birthday, Jason! We're still the same age for 2 more weeks and then, yes, I'll be "old" again! :-) I love you - you are such an amazing husband and a wonderful daddy to our two little boys. We are all so lucky to have you!

What have we been up to, you ask???

Honestly, not a whole lot of exciting news to share. I was really sick this past week with strep throat, and am thankfully now feeling better. Those 2 days taking care of 2 kids with 102 fever were NOT FUN! I think I now know how it feels to be a real mother! :-) Elijah did start swim lessons this past week - he goes every day for 2 weeks, and he's doing great! I'm going to blog about that when he is finished at the end of this week. And Jason's birthday was yesterday, but I'm waiting on a few pictures before I blog about that, so here are some random pictures since I last wrote, and that's all I have for now....

Elijah has been helping with the laundry.

He finished his t-ball season on Weds night and received a trophy. Now he says he wants to play soccer, so we're looking into that for the fall.

Judah is smiling - this is my best attempt to capture that. He has actually been smiling for several weeks now - it is precious!

He likes to suck on his fingers sometimes.

Poor thing has baby acne really bad all over his face and neck.

My mom & sister painted this scripture for me to hang over his bed.

Here he is this past Friday, exactly 6 weeks old, and his first time in the Bumbo chair.

And my two sweet boys (one who's developed a double chin:-)

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1 month old
I can't believe Judah was one month old yesterday - wow! I think time flies faster with the second one. I took him to the hematologist and he's already over 10 lbs now - what a chunk! He and Elijah both go for their 1 month and 4 yr check-ups tomorrow - fun!

Here's proof that I must be taking too many pictures :-) They are playing on Judah's activity mat.

Here are some sweet pictures of little Judah sleeping

And a VERY rare one of Elijah asleep in the car - he never does this! We were on our way home yesterday from Jason's parent's house - he had been swimming all weekend, so I guess he was zonked! That was his first swim of the summer. He starts swim lessons next week - he's really excited about it and did a great job going under the water this weekend.

That's all...not much going on right now except for still getting used to the busy-ness of two kiddos!