Water / goals!

Casey came to see the kids at their swim lessons last Monday (15th). Since he was already with us we decided to grab some subway and go see Shoshone falls. It was worth all the hype; the falls were amazing! They have been flowing at the highest they've been in many years. (We've procrastinated going because of crowds; they've had over 43,000 visitors in the last month. Lucky we went when we did because at the end of last week they opened up other waterways / canals so the water level dropped a lot and the falls aren't as cool.)

Peter has finished his preschool goals we set at the beginning of the school year! I regret not putting him in a traditional preschool because he would've done great, and learning from mom has been a tug of war this year. However Peter has grown leaps and bounds. I'm so proud of all that he's learned this year. He even knocked out two bonus goals (tying shoes and counting to 100) and he's working on a third goal (site words / reading basic books). I'm so very proud of this awesome boy! He's so excited to go to Kindergarten this fall and I'm so very ready to ship him off to Kindergarten as well!

I've been trying to get Peter to practice tying shoes for a while now.(Learning is always on his terms / timeline) Apparently I just needed to let him tie up the Lego bad guys. 

He did it a bunch of times and can tie shoes! 

Peter loves his Lego Rocket and Astronauts. To answer some of his astronaut questions he watched some videos of how astronauts live in space. One day for lunch he really wanted to eat his peanut butter on a tortilla just like they do in space. While his dream isn't to go into outer space (He thinks it's to far from family), he'd like to build rockets someday!

The kids finished swim lessons this week. Kendal progressed and gained some confidence in the water. She's having trouble holding her breath for long periods so while she can do the back stroke across the pool she can't go very far on her stomach before she stops for a breath. Kendal loved jumping off the diving board in her last lesson and even did it life jacket free! We'll keep working on holding her breath / breathing as you swim, and treading this summer. Peter was super timid his first lesson then shot off from there. He just jumps in and does his thing! He loved his lessons and did everything happily and with gusto. On the last lesson however he got super nervous about the diving board and didn't want to jump. With some heavy persuasion he donned a life vest and hung to the wall in the deep pool. Maybe next year. We'll continue to work on floating (he's still pretty tense), and basic swimming with Peter this summer!

 A few extra just for fun! Sweet Alice, Kendal's gotten her face painted a couple of times in the last couple of weeks at school, and Peter loading up Alice with all of her toys. (She tolerates a lot ; )