Hello all! I am sorry this has been awhile since I wrote, but things do get busy (and alternatively lazy!) around here!
The school schedule has settled in. The kids are super busy, which means mom's taxi is running overtime and sharing rides on Friday is the only way to keep our sanity and everyone where they need to be on time. Thank goodness for friends with kids in the same activities so we can juggle them all around!
We hosted Julie and Paul from Wenatchee for a couple of nights and gave them the grand tour of Brisbane. We all took the bus into town to do the weekend markets at Southbank and enjoyed shopping, a swim at the lagoons, a ferry trip around town via the river, and a walk through the botanic gardens. It was a nice day capped off with an Aussie BBQ!
Annika has decided to start swim club as well and has enough skill, albeit barely, to get from one side of the pool to the other. She did all 4 strokes last week and the pictures below are from her first night of swim club 2 weeks ago!
The school schedule has settled in. The kids are super busy, which means mom's taxi is running overtime and sharing rides on Friday is the only way to keep our sanity and everyone where they need to be on time. Thank goodness for friends with kids in the same activities so we can juggle them all around!
We hosted Julie and Paul from Wenatchee for a couple of nights and gave them the grand tour of Brisbane. We all took the bus into town to do the weekend markets at Southbank and enjoyed shopping, a swim at the lagoons, a ferry trip around town via the river, and a walk through the botanic gardens. It was a nice day capped off with an Aussie BBQ!
Annika has decided to start swim club as well and has enough skill, albeit barely, to get from one side of the pool to the other. She did all 4 strokes last week and the pictures below are from her first night of swim club 2 weeks ago!
Annika did a great job and we are so proud of her!
In more swim news, Alex is now swimming the 50m for all of her strokes! She hit the breaststroke AND the butterfly on the same night and was so pleased she leapt out of the water at the end! Despite having her goggles get knocked around her neck she finished her breaststroke and totally drove herself until the end for her fly. She is amazing! She also got moved into the last lanes for her practice time-which is a huge deal as that means she is nearly ready to train with the high school aged and very fast 7th graders. I won't go into the complications THAT would do to my after school taxi schedule!
Ian LOVES swimming now and is working to get his arms and legs all moving together. We still need to keep a hand under his tummy, but he is churning away and blowing bubbles like mad to swim. It helps that his private lessons are with a buddy from his class and his class does lessons weekly at school. What a nice change from the wailing fits we would endure last year!
The wet season is trying to get a toehold here as well. The humidity is inching up as are the temps. So far, so good though and the fact we have AC in the upstairs will make sleeping so much better this year during the hot, sticky yuck.
Love you all-until I write again!
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