summer stuff

It is going by waaay too fast! Reese keeps saying "I wish summer was already over" because all she can think about is kindergarten. We are into the crazy swim team schedule. Pete, Soren and I get up at 5 am; I get them fed and out the door by 5:30 and then either ride the trainer or get some work done. At 9am I wake Reese up (she will sleep until after 10!) and we go to the Y and swim. Soren stays in and works with Reese on her strokes while I get my swim workout done. Then we shower and go eat because by now it has been almost 6 hours since Soren has eaten breakfast and she has had 2:45 of swim team swimming and an hour of working with Reese. We come home and either have a friend over, go to the pool, or both. Cook dinner at 4 pm and head back for afternoon swim team at 4:45. Soren is swimming 4:15 everyday and we drive a total of 3 hours to make this happen. And yet we are having a blast somehow.

Soren has another big meet this weekend. She is really hoping to get another TAGS time for the big championship meet at Texas A&M at the end of July. She qualified at her last meet, but only in one event and you have to qualify for each event for the championships.

Reese is so big. She even talks big. We bought some kindergarten workbooks and she is loving doing her "studies". She and I go to the library during afternoon swim team and she will work for 1 1/2 hours straight on math, reading and problem solving. She is able to recognize many words now and can sound out simple words. We are working on telling time now.

So that is what we are up to these days. One big thing on our list that I think we will be able to do next week is Six Flags. Grandma Charlotte bought us season passes and we have not used them yet! We are also watching our sunflowers bloom and are nearly ready to harvest one of them. Some of them are over 8 feet tall. The blooms are as big as a basketball. It's pretty neat. We are all well, busy and happy. Cheers.