Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Swim lessons

Carson and Avery have been taking swim lessons the past several weeks! We enrolled them in the "infant rescue" type of swim lessons, and they are doing so great!!
They were all smiles (before they realized what was about to happen to them)

You want us to do what?
They learned how to kick their legs

How to float on their backs to rest and get a breath...



And how to swim under water!

They took 4 weeks of individual lessons (4 days a week for 10 min each day). It was very traumatic, to say the least, for the first couple of weeks. There was a lot of screaming, crying, throwing up, and many attempts at various stall tactics, but at the end of the 4 weeks they were swimming and floating. It was amazing! Avery loved it after she released some control and realized that swimming was fun. Carson cried every single day for the whole 4 weeks...poor guy!

After their individual lessons were done, Carson and Avery joined a group class once a week with their  cousin Taylor. 

Standing in the "castle"
They got to jump off the "jump rock" during group class





Taylor comforting Carson when he was crying, so sweet!
Their most favorite part though, was probably the lollipop they got from Ms. Tracey after their lessons! 
Carson and Avery have come a long way these past several weeks. They are swimming so well, and I feel so much more peace when we go to the pool. They absolutely love swimming now!
Here is a Carson before picture...
...and Carson after! So happy in the water now!!
Thank you Ms. Tracey!

Monday, June 18, 2012

Little Boys


This little boy loves construction trucks....


And working on his truck too!
He loves fishing...
And four wheelers!!
But his greatest love right now is lawn equipment!
Mowing,
Blowing,

Edging,
And weed-eating (with his "weeder")
He loves trying to start it!
Thank you Jesus for little boys, they sure make life more fun!!

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Cousins

I am so thankful that Carson and Avery have been blessed with cousins!
It is so awesome that they are all about the same age and get to grow up together!
They have so much fun!
We dug out our old trikes at my parent's house a couple of months ago.
The kids loved riding them up and down my parent's long driveway.

I love this one of Avery and Taylor
And just to show how old these trikes are, here's a picture of my brother and I on one of them.

One of Carson and Avery's favorite things to do when they get together with Kennedy and Taylor is "stunts"
They are always asking to do some of Kennedy's cheerleading stunts.
One of my favorites of the four of them (Kennedy and Taylor don't use paci's, they were just joining in, Carson and Avery on the other hand may go to college with theirs :)
Memorial Day we went over to my parent's house to ride in Shane and Stephen's new mini truck they bought for their deer lease.
The kids loved it!
Don't worry, they didn't ride around like this, it was only for pictures
The kids played "birthday party" in Mimi's kitchen
I love the little games they are starting to make up, their little minds are so creative!!
The girls singing "happy birthday" 

Blowing out the candles

They have so much fun together!
That night we lit a fire in our fire pit and made s'mores
Yum!
Then turned the music on for a dance party,
Dog pile!!

These four sure do love each other (most of the time)
We also got to see Carson and Avery's other cousin, Barrett this past week. Travis, JJ, and Barrett stayed with us for a night on their way up to Arkansas.
Carson and Avery had so much fun playing with their baby cousin, he is getting much more mobile and is such a sweet and happy baby!
Can't wait till these three are running around together and getting into all sorts of mischief!!
Avery was so excited she got to hold Barrett (although he is just about as big as her now :)

We love our cousins!!

Friday, June 1, 2012

Last Day of School

Last week was Carson and Avery's last day of "school"
They have learned so much and have had so much fun this past year.
There are some sweet little friendships forming in this group of 2 year olds.
We are going to miss Ms. Antonia and Ms. Kelly this summer.
We couldn't have asked for two better teachers for Carson and Avery's first year of school.
I am really sad that the school year is over, it went by so fast.
But I am really excited about this summer! It's going to be a fun one!!