lots of stuff accomplished this weekend. yee-haw!
#1. the laundry room is done. yo, baby! now i just need to take pictures. i'll hook you up with those on monday!
#2. finished a fun little project for the garden girl blog at twopeasinabucket.com. i made a birthday box so now i clearly have no excuse for not remembering family birthdays. you can check out more pictures of it here.
#3. swam. swam. swam.
and perhaps this is our happiest accomplishment of the entire year. if you have been around this blog at all for the past few years, you may recall our issues with swimming. we have them. a lot of them. every year, when summer rolls around there is great fear and trembling in our home. when the dreaded words "swimming lessons" are uttered, usually pandemonium breaks out. crying. wailing. and great trepidation.
of course, this year was no different. same story.
we've been at it again all month long. more lessons. and no swimming. and finally on thursday i said to jeff, "do you have any idea how much money we've spent just trying to teach this kid to swim? no more! i'm going to throw him in the pool myself and say sink or swim buddy!"
well, the same afternoon that i said that, i went out in the pool with dallin to check out his abilities. i expected the same old, "but i don't want to swim!" i swear i must have alarmed the neighbors with my shrieks of delight when i saw him jump in and swim. and swim. and he just kept swimming. for 5 hours straight that day. i had no idea the progress his teacher was making with him. no idea.
i thought it might have been a fluke because we've had those in the past. but yesterday and today we swam again with no hesitations.
and the icing on the cake…when he said to me, "mom, do you know what my favorite sport is? swimming!"
dude. this momma is a happy camper.
