Swim Lessons

We quickly noticed that Paige was TERRIFIED of water every time we were around it.  She is also a daredevil that likes to run from us, so swim lessons were high on my priority list. 

A mom at gymnastics teaches ISR (Infant Swimming Resource) for infants - age 5.  They are intense lessons, 5 days a week for 10 minutes at a time.  It's a well-researched program and is designed to teach survival skills to kids if they fall in a body of water.  She's not learning strokes (ha!).  She HATED the lessons at first:























And she never really got to the point of liking them, but it was amazing how she picked up the skills.  Olivia also took lessons at the same time (when she wasn't at a camp!) to learn different strokes.  Paige liked it when her sister was there.  The last "test" was swimming to the side of the pool in winter clothes. 

I was really impressed with the program.  Next summer she will have a 1-2 week "refresher" course and will hopefully be good to go.  Yay for progress!

A Birthday Party!

We celebrated Olivia's birthday a little early, since school starts the day after her birthday!  She decided on a gymnastics party (shocking, I know) at Let It Shine.  Their competition season is quickly approaching and her entire team has been working really hard, but she can't get enough. 

She wanted some photo props and the girls had so much fun with them:

 

They really have birthday parties down to a science:

She has been wanting to do this since she started at Let It Shine a year ago:

 

 

 

So thankful for the sweet friends she has made since we moved!  It was a great party.

 

 



July 4th

One of the many things we like about living in Franklin are the many festivals that are held downtown.  It does get crazy crowded, but we are able to walk downtown and avoid the traffic.

Olivia was really excited about a 4th of July parade for kids; one where they decorate their bikes, wagons, etc. and get to be in their own parade.  We worked on her bike the night before and she was SO proud:

I was going to let Paige walk with us, but she fell asleep.  And the weather was not looking great- in fact it came a complete downpour halfway through the kids parade and everyone made a mad dash for cover.

Mamaw was watching and had a bench saved that was somewhat covered:

Unfortunately, the rain did not let up.  Nashville had been advertising a huge fireworks display that we didn't want to miss.  So, we dug out all our rain gear and headed to downtown Nashville!

The atmosphere was fun, but it was really hard to see the fireworks.  The Franklin fireworks were postponed, so we were able to watch them the next night.  It was still a great Fourth!