Big Girl Ava

Ava has been doing her own swimming lessons this summer. She has graduated the "Preschool" class and has progressed to "Advanced Preschool". She has been working really hard on her "starfish", putting her face under water and jumping in from the side :)

At Emms's swim meet :)

Fly, Baby, Fly

Emma swam the Butterfly for the first time in competition on Saturday. She did awesome! She has swam all four strokes legally this season and will be competing in her first Championship meet this Sunday at the University of Texas. She is still a beginner and needs to work on her dives but she is really enjoying swimming competitively, and we are enjoying spectating :) She has decided to start swimming year-round.

Here she is doing her breaststroke:

Swim FAST!

Emma had her first swim meet with the FAST Frogs this weekend. We all had such a great time! Emma raced in the 25M Freestyle and the 25M Backstroke. She won her heat in freestyle and came in 4th in backstroke. She was so excited...even after getting up at the crack of dawn to be in the water for warm up at 7am. Yes, 7am on Saturday.

Her first race:
Yeah!! She won!
Getting ready to backstroke
What great form :)

It's SUMMER!!!!!

WooHoo!!! School's out, school's out! I know some of you think I'm crazy, but I LOVE having the kids home for summer. No more slave to pick up time. Free errand running for all!! Emma's last day of 2nd grade was Friday. Look how much she's grown since the first day of school in August :(

HAIRCUTS!!!

Both of the girls got their hair cut yesterday. Before: long hair for everyone!

It was Ava's first haircut. She did great!

That's a lot of hair :(

Emma wanted an inverted bob. She even got the clippers!!

Ahhh, summer hair :)

Water Play in the Baby Pool

It was 100 degrees yesterday so we put Vinny in his little pool. It wasn't long before the girls and a couple neighborhood kids were in it, too :)

In case you've been lucky enough not to have experienced this, we call it hippopotomus. LOL Ava didn't want me to take any more pictures of her. Granted it was after 8 and we were just getting dinner ready, she hadn't napped and she sat though a puppet play at Emma's school and having her hair cut. Really, I'm making excuses...she does this a lot.

Emma Made All Stars!!!

It was worth it to sit through the two hours of Closing Ceremonies to see Emma's reaction to having her name announced for All Stars! She was so excited! Unfortunately, she won't be able to play, as she has already made a commitment to swim team. We are so proud of her!

Emma and her BFF Grace.

Ava was more interested in the dirt :)