Swim Classes!!!

I love swimming in the summer. SO do my boys! Phoenix Parks and Rec offers swim classes close that we decided to do that this summer. Mason and I are in a Mommy and Me class together and Porter is in the swim level 1 class. Just like with soccer Porter's had a hard time with groups of kids and wasn't having the best time at first. He kept telling my how his teacher would throw him in and he would touch the bottom, "I didn't like that mom". I was in a class myself so I couldn't be there encouraging him the whole time. Fortunately some of the other life guards saw the need and jumped in to give Porter some private lessons. He's been doing so well!! I'm so proud of him. He's been thrown off or jumped off the diving board several times and swam to the side safely. He'll swim to me from the side or jump into the pool and swim to me quite a ways. I love getting to see him learn and improve. He's doing so good! Mason is quite the fish too. I almost thought he was too old for the class because he already does everything they ask him to do. He did however get the stitches in his finger in the middle of the course. So we had 4 more days of swimming but he wasn't allowed to put his finger in the nasty water for those days. The first two days I just held his hand out of the water myself. Then I let him keep it out the next couple days. He did really good remembering to keep it out. Sometimes a little too good. He would jump in the water and almost drown because he would NOT put his left hand in the water to help get up. He was really devoted to keeping that finger dry. Even going down the slide that finger would stay nice and high, out of the water. One day I would go down and then once I was at the bottom he would come down after me. For a little boy that slide would whip him around and by the time I saw him he was on his back face first....BUT that hand was way up in the air NOT getting wet!! Too funny.

Poor Mason...again

We were excited to be home Sunday afternoon from Flagstaff and ready to go in and eat a late lunch. Brent was just closing the car door and Mason insisted on helping. Instead he got his poor little finger caught in the door. Brent handed the bleeding boy over to me and said it's his finger. I was trying to get an idea how bad it really was and why he was bleeding all over the place. We decided it was just too deep and may need stitches so we loaded back into the car and headed to urgent care. 3 hours and 3 stitches later we headed home. I'm afraid to head up north again with that boy after his hand burning the last time. Poor guy. Both times he fell asleep by the time we got to the ER or Urgent care. So although Mason and I had blood all over us he was sleeping so I felt like I had to say, I promise we DID need to come in to get him looked at. I'm always afraid I'm being overly concerned, but both times it was good we took him in. Mason was such a trooper. He was such a big boy laying on the table to be examined and then letting us hold him down for the doctor to give him lidocaine. The next time however he knew better and fought having to lay there. It was heart breaking to see him begging for mommy and daddy to help him.

Porter's Puzzle and Mason's Mascara

Alright so I like Alliteration...but it works! We bought and did this puzzle a while back. It's a huge puzzle and Porter did it almost all by himself. It was fun to do one that was so big!
I'm not sure why I thought this wouldn't happen to me just because I have boys, but it did. Myh little man got into my makeup. Mason did a pretty good job getting the Mascara around his eye...first time people.

Science Year begins (since we have the annual pass to science centers). Kimree, my youngest sister, stayed the night at our house for a few days so we had some fun activities planned. We went swimming, she got to watch her Olsen twin movies and we went to the Az Science Center. Brent works accross the street, literally, so we will be going back ofter. We had a good time learning, building, listening, watching and growing. Here are some of the fun things we did.

I'm loving the legs boys. Of course Masons immitating his brother

Yep, this is what kids at work look like. Sitting on the job....nice boys ;)

Without meaning to I got a great shot of what Mason does all day. Copies those around him!! It cracked me up when I was looking through these pictures because of course there Mason is back there copying Kimree. This is what he does all day. He follows Porter around copying him. Love that kid!!

Sweet Porter just may be an archedect one day....wait a minute is that really my child. Standing by a perfectly good building to demolish and not taking action??...wait for it...wait for it...

POW!...there's my boy I know and love. :)

Softball in beautiful Flagstaff

APS had a softball tornament in which Brent was Captain of his team. It was so beautiful in Flagstaff. Made me almost want to move there. We had a great time watching daddy play. We brought some water guns and they were a huge hit! We got to stay with Brent's cousin and her family up there. I had a great time getting to know her and we all had a lot of outside time. We went to the Lowel Observatory (the place that discovered Pluto) and now have an annual pass to Science Centers accross the country! We plan on using that a lot this year! What a fun beautiful trip!

WHAT A STUD!!!!Run'n home!

Girls Camp

So it turns out you can relive your youth! I always LOVED girls camp when I was a youth and this year I got to go again! I think my favorite part was getting to know all the amazing girls in my ward! I got to be cabin mom to the first years and it was so much fun!!! They were young enough to want to go to bed early so I more sleep than I usually do at home. I did miss my boys like crazy but had a blast!!!

Doctor Ed Preschool

This was the most fun Preschool day! I taught the kids about doctors and nurses and what they do. First I brought in my "doctor" bag and they took turns picking out instruments and learning what they are used for. We got to hear our heart beats and, take our temperature and all sorts of fun stuff. Then each child got to make his own doctor bag out of paper and we stapled a zip lock bag in them with some cotton balls, bandaides, cotton swabs, and tongue depressors in it. I then took some paper and traced each child's hand, arm and some feet and gave them "owies" with a red sharpie marker. They then got to play doctor and clean up the wound and put bandaides on them. I was so impressed with how well they clened and dressed their wounds. Even Mason was into it and really good at getting those bandaides right on the "owies". I hope if nothing else they will be comfortable going to their next doctors appointment. Getting a future doctor out of one of my boys would just be PLUS! lol

Home of the Olsens/Scotts

For the past 5 weeks or so we've been blessed with the Scotts living with us. Ashley is Brent's sister and they had a little transition time before moving to New york for college. We've had such a good time having them here! I have an adult to talk to all day and to help me cook and clean (she's been a HUGE HELP!!!), the boys have a fun cousin to entertain and play with and Brent has someone to play xbox with. What more could we ask for. We're really going to miss them when theym move. We love you guys!