More swim pics

These are from last Thursday. Miles finished up the introductory week of lessons ("Fish School") and this week started the next session. He has a new teacher and is still in a group with his buddies Ben and Andrew. Although the weather has been substantially cooler this week--which prego mama enjoys immensely--he's been a trooper and seems to really like being in the water.

Making Progress

The drawers are in and a few other touches have been added. Now I just need to organize stuff into drawers and the closet.

Miles' First Swim Lesson

Miles started swimming lessons today. He was super excited that his buddies, Andrew and Ben, were in his class. And I was thrilled to find out that his teacher was Jenna, a former student of mine. How cool!

He's signed up for 12 lessons down at Henry Moses (the community pool here in Renton). It gives us a fun outing each morning and I get to sit and visit with our friend Mo while the three boys play. Perfect!

Venturing into the water

Miles, Andrew, and Jenna

Blowing bubbles while Ben watches on

Brrr....a little chilly

"Bobbing" his face in the water

Ben, Andrew, and Miles...three happy swimmers

Making Room for Baby

Since we only have two bedrooms upstairs, Miles and Baby will be sharing a room. We had to get creative with space so we enlisted the help of my dad to build a loft bed for Miles. The drawers will be done in a week or so. In the meantime, "Grandpa Ken" delivered the bed yesterday and Miles LOVES it! Not only does he get to climb a ladder to go to bed now, it doubles as a "fort" underneath. Too cool.

I spent today making the new space "his" and creating a new little area for Baby. (By the way, I'm pretty proud of the fact that I assembled the crib without any directions or help!) We wanted a space that was "girly" enough but also went in a blue room....so it's jungle animals for our new little one. Right now the rest of the house looks like a wreck, but at least the kids' room is starting to take shape.

Gotta love it!

I took this picture this afternoon because Miles REALLY wanted Vince to see the balloon sword he got at Ikea today. This is actually sword #2…the first one was red and popped in the parking lot on the way out to the car. The tears were more than I could bear, so back in we went for version 2.0. This time he chose yellow.

When I sat down to email the photo to Vince this afternoon, the sword was resting by Miles' bed as he settled in for a nap….he told the sword to have sweet dreams.

As a side note, Miles has become extremely attached to his Lightning McQueen boots in the last couple days. He just HAD to wear them.

Life through the eyes of a three-year-old. Gotta love it.

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