First swim meet!

The boys are both doing swim team for the first time this year.  The first meet was tonight and Brady decided he was going to compete.  (After a successful mock meet last week, he was feeling comfortable with the whole idea.)  Rudy wasn't quite ready to sign up this week, but has already agreed to swim next week.   

A few pointers from Miss Renee.  We found out when we got there that Reagan and Brady were swimming in the freestyle relay for their age groups, even though they'd never practiced a relay before!    

 

Warm ups...

Team cheer...Brady looks so little!

 

Ready to swim:

Ready to start his relay leg

 

Brady swam three events:  100M freestyle relay, 25M freestyle, and 25M backstroke.  He was beyond thrilled that he was the heat winner for the freestyle; after that he was even a little disappointed that he was second in his backstroke heat.  I think final times are posted tomorrow, so we'll have to update again soon!

UPDATE:  Brady finished FIRST place in his age group for freestyle!!  His time was 25.47.  He was third in backstroke, with a time of 31.82.  He can't stop grinning!

The quality is obviously not great, and you may want to mute your sound...but I caught a few videos of his events...

Best art project EVER

All you need for this project?  Broken crayons (we had plenty of these come home from school), canvas, and a heat gun or hair dryer.  The boys had a blast and worked on these for almost two hours!

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When we were done with the canvases, we made new recycled crayons out of the leftover pieces...

 
Our new recycled crayons:

Tubing, round 2

For Christmas, we gave Oma and Papa tubing adventures in the winter and in the summer.  We've already done the winter adventure, and found a great weekend for the summer tubing on the James River.   It was HOT outside (hovering right around 100 degrees), but was quite pleasant in the tubes.

Another day at the pool...

Silly fans!

End of year school awards

Both boys' awards ceremonies were last week at school.  The weather was nice enough to have the kindergarten promotion and awards outside, but we were in the classroom for Brady's readers' tea and awards ceremony.

Rudy with Mrs. Conner:

The whole class:

Brady received his promotion certificate and a math league certificate, for being one of the top six 2nd grade participants in his school in the math games.  

BOTH boys came home with one of the two citizenship awards for his classroom.  The award factors in attendance, academics, behavior, and overall performance.  James and could not be MORE thrilled or proud of these guys!