This post is long overdue. In fact, six months has past since Carrington first learned to ride her bike. I don't want the event to go undocumented so here it is! We were having a warm December and Aaron was home with us so why not get outside and learn to ride a bike without training wheels. Carrington did fantastic! It took one or two trips down the road with daddy holding onto her shirt and then she was off riding on her own. She had a great attitude about leaning and listened very well to instruction. I'm as proud of her character as her ability to ride unassisted. She has become an expert at riding up and down the hills of GA and on several occasions has finished a 2.2 mile loop around a local lake without stopping or complaining while Aaron and I run.
We are on the hunt for a bigger bike and of course, she wants it to go faster!!
First day learning to ride.
A few days later and she's ready for the Tour de France!
On to the pool and the little swimmers we are molding. So, it's no secret that I love water!! It's where we spend all our time in the summer. It use to be the beach but now that it's out of reach, we've hit the pool. At the end of spring, Carrington was enrolled in a swim class. I wasn't a fan of how they were teaching her and spent most of my time pacing the pool deck. Basically, I have no business watching swim lessons because I think they are doing it wrong or not pushing her enough. Before I make myself sound totally crazy, the first couple of classes they were teaching her to blow bubbles. We covered that when she was one years old so I thought it was the biggest waste of time. But, I now see that she came out learning a lot and has taken off with her freestyle stroke. Something she couldn't do until this summer. At mid-summer, she is swimming on her own in the big pool and doesn't need any flotation while playing with her friends. It's nice to know she is comfortable in the pool and can swim well enough that I don't have to keep an eye on her every second.
Grayson is proving to be a water baby too! Anything his sister can do, he can do too! At least he's going to give it his best effort. I didn't put him in a lesson because it would have required me to be in the water with him. With Hudson, that's not possible. So, everything he has learned has been purely because he wants to and he repeats jumping into the water and swimming as long as we let him. The video of him swimming with his flotation is a month old. At this point, he can jump in and swim his arms underwater even farther. It's crazy awesome! I have to keep an eye on him because given the chance he would attempt to swim in the big pool alone.
As a former swimmer, it's very important to me that my kids learn to swim, As a mom, I want them to have fun in the water and feel comfortable. I'm proud of how far they've come at such a young age.
Beginning of the summer
End of June
End of July
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