summer days

pool, pool, pool, and more pool! that's how our days have been for the past 2 weeks. i've been struggling to adjust to the new schedule and finally, this week, i feel like i am moving with the flow. we go to the pool in the morning for Skye and Claire's swim lessons and swim team practice. we often take it easy in the afternoons, but if the girls are hot, they want to go back to the pool. so we are getting pickled in the chlorine and turning into little brown fishes. :) i've been away from the blog because it's been overwhelming on most days.

Skye has become quite a swimmer in the past 2 weeks. the swim team practices every day have made quite a difference! when summer first began, she couldn't swim across the width of the pool without stopping. now, she swims lengths without stopping!! it's such fun to watch her swim in the swim meets. there'll be more of that as the summer progresses.

Claire is getting very comfortable in the water and is oh-so-close to swimming. if i didn't have Cordelia to hold, i could work with her and get her swimming before the summer is over, but alas, such is not the case. i remember i worked so hard with Skye in the water before Claire came. such luxuries when you have just one child!!

i've managed to take some photos. people have been asking for more photos of Cordelia whose face does seem to change every week, so here they are! and Cordelia is in such a fun stage. she smiles and laughs, responds to us in her baby way - so beautiful! she's trying so hard to lift her body up when she is on her back. i feel like she is quite impatient to be up and moving, just like her sisters!