July 4th

*I'm very frustrated that Blogger will not let me move my pictures around! They are all backwards!

We had a great, but hot, July 4th! Our church hosts the Pancake Breakfast and 5k run/walk for the town of Trophy Club. We woke up extra early to get to the church to help serve pancakes at 7am to find that we would only be in the way because there was plenty of help. We kept looking at ourselves wondering why we were awake so early! We then loaded up on the church float and rode down to the Country Club to begin the parade. It was super-duper hot and I found my place inside the truck with AC! Camille even ended up inside the truck by the end of the parade.

Afterwards, we went home cooled off, cleaned up and took naps! That evening we went to our friends' house - Matt, Kyla and Mark. We enjoyed a good cook-out and then a firework show. Although it was super late, Camille did very well and loved the fireworks! She was asleep as soon as we got into the car!

Swim Lessons

Camille and I took a Parent and Tot swim lesson class this summer. I really thought she was ready to take lessons on her own but with this rec center, she had to be 3 in order to go off on her own. I envisioned this class being mostly little babies and mommies learning to put their feet in the water. I was very suprised when Camille came away from it and had learned some new swimming skills.

She got very good at going under water on her own to get diving sticks and rings! By the end of the 2 weeks, she would put her entire face under instead of tilting her head sideways and trying to stretch her arm as far as she could without getting her eyes in the water!

She was very brave when it came to jumping in! She could crawl out of the pool on her own, count to 3, then jump in with a bubble! At first she would jump on top of me, but by the end, she would jump all the way in and under by herself and then I would bring her up. We had a blast getting up and going swimming together every morning for 2 weeks! I look forward to watching her take off on her own next summer!