Swimming lessons

The kids have been in swimming lessons for the last 4 weeks every single day! They have LOVED it so much. They have both grown so much. It's such a beautiful thing to watch.

Audrey has grown exponentially and is even swimming quite well with no floaty or anything now. Beckham has grown a ton but he is in a 3-5 year old class and technically he shouldn't be in it (to young) but he is doing fabulous and totally keeping up with the whole class!!!

Nudist Art

The easiest way to paint is naked. Because if you get paint on yourself then you get thrown in the bath or hosed off outside.

Audrey is 4, when I tell her we are going to paint she immediately takes her cloths off. I'm thinking this lazy mama needs to go to value village and get some painting shirts haha. Don't want kindergarten to come and when the teacher says it's painting time for her to strip down to her itty bitties. 

Excuse the towels in the background we have has swimming lessons everyday for the last 4 weeks so we constantly have wet bathingsuits and towels hung up. 

A lil biblical

Sometimes as I look at my ravenous babes picking fruit and veggies from of our garden I am reminded of the garden of Eden. Maybe it's the lack of cloths. Maybe it's just the simplicity of snacking on what's hanging around. This summer has been so good to my soul. 

These precious babes are such a wonderful age. Full of innocence. Full of life. Full of energy. Also mostly naked. So much play. So many cuddles. How could all of those things not be good for your soul. 

Good things come after hard work

Today we got given a window of 11-3pm for our couches to be delivered. That means we are home basically allllll day. 

So today was the day I put my nearly 3 year old and 4 year old to serious work.

I said at the end of the work they could have a icecream.

-They cleaned up every toy upstairs (holy Toledo there was toys galore scattered like a bomb had gone off.

-They made their beds (they both sleep on the floor in a 'nest' of blankets and stuffies'

-They washed all the mouldings and walls (it was MUCH needed)

-They helped vacuum (I started to fear for dings in walls so I took over)

-They used bum wipes to dust ALL the furniture in their rooms

It was a lot of work but together they did a WONDERFUL job with very little help from mommy. 

We piled in the car still looking grubby from waking up so our best option was a 10:45am mcdonalds drive through. 

What did I do? 'Hi, I'd like one small icecream cone. No cone. Split into two cups. Bahaha

Cheapest cleaning service I have ever heard of *wink wink* I'm looking forward to more chores in the years to come.

My mantra

As we start the day I find myself daily repeating the same phrase. Perhaps I have lost creativity, perhaps I am a morning zombie or perhaps I have a mantra. A mantra I never realized I had.

'Be kind. Be gentle. Don't jump off your bed. Share. Go back to bed until the light is green!' 

ZzzzzzZzzzzzz

Mommy needed a bit more sleep

In all honesty beckham and Audrey have bed Olympics every morning and it makes it sound like to roof will collapse on me. I don't know who taught them swan dives off the bed is a good idea?

Naptime

I napped with Audrey today

When beckham woke he joined us

Audrey snuck my phone

Audrey took pictures of us

Then we took a mommy and kiddo selfie

Audrey's picture above (stinker woke both of us up)

Family selfie shot.

We are clearly still recovering from a weekend of camping. Let's repeat tomorrow. Naps for everyone!

Here is a screenshot of a few pictures out of the 100+ she took!

Dare devil beckham & heart attack for mommy

So this past weekend we went camping with a group of our friends and all our kiddos. 

On day Brent took a nap so I took the kids to the pool with some of our other friends. I got them ready packed all the towels and floaties and had some seriously full arms as we walked to the pool. The kids walked good beside me.

I walked into the pool area by opening the gate. I held the gate open for the kids to get through while I fumbled with my arm full of stuff to close the gate I saw in the corner of my eye beckham had RAN as fast as he could and THROWN himself into the water. 

This would typically be ok.

This time however I was holding his floatie. He was sinking to the bottom. 

I threw EVERYTHING to the ground and dove in. Grabbed beckham and yanked him up. Laughter. He's laughing. (I'm crying) You're joking right? I'm traumatized...he should be traumatized, right?!

I gave him a big talk about safety and waiting for mommy. How we don't swim without floaties and how he needs to wait for mommy and ask mommy before jumping in.

Fast forward.

Two hours later. He's done swimming and blue from being freeeeeezing. I took him out. Gave him a towel. A snack. A cuddle. I turned to chat with my friend while he's sitting beside me. 

The horror.

He isn't beside me anymore.

He isn't in his floatie anymore because I took it off.

It's been about 30 seconds - 45 seconds. 

I jump in the pool again with my cloths. 

This time. My two year old is not at the bottom of the pool. He is fully doggy paddleing and keeping his head above the water (struggling to do so but 100% successfully doing it). Everyone around was so surprised because they saw him jump in and swimming so they didn't think anything of it...until I flung myself in to rescue him. 

I think my little boy needs a new rule. Anytime we are by water he needs to have a floatie on and NEVER take it off. Clearly he needs to fear water a little more. 

I left the pool that day feeling exhausted emotionally. Something about adrenaline and being so SO scared. 

It's amazing how QUICK something an happen. I'm so glad I was keeping an eye on him so closely.