Marengo Cave

We decided on a whim to go to Marengo Cave today with Tracey, Fifi, Sammy, and Dad - beautiful caves, and we ate our bodyweight in watermelon

I'm watching Luke's gymnastics class today - a couple of weeks ago he was invited to join the Future Stars group. This is a developmental group for USA-gymastics. Coach Doug invited two of the six year olds to practice with tem even though they are a couple years too young to compete.

Luke is by far the least skilled in the group so far, but he is realy fortunate to be in the it because Doug is incredible and it's only a handful of kids so he gets lots of coaching.

He's doing a round off back handspring now and he's doing back tucks on the trampoline. The handsprings have scared him, and today he's definitely bonked his head on the landing more times than I can count, but he's making progress - he just did a couple of them with his legs together and pretty body position (and a safe noggin'!). We'll have to decide in August if he's going to keep coming to Future Stars during the school year. I hope so, but it would make four practices a week and a tired kid.

http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/pages/men/pages/overview_futurestars.html

This kid has magic swinging hips - over 1000 swoops of the hoop!

Blessed on Father's Day to have my wonderful dad and my husband....we celebrated with Vietnamese food and a relaxed day.

On the way home from daycare I pointed out a convertible VW bug to Aaron. He said, "And it's roof fell off!"

After a time out he told me, "I'm naughty at you."

Copperfield Swim Meet

Luke had a wonderful first swim meet of the year! He had three races - the first was a free style relay (2nd place), a 25 m. freestyle race (somewhere in the middle of the pack), and a 25 m. backstroke (1st in heat, we'll see how he places overall). He was sooooo excited about his backstroke, and he can't wait to get his ribbons tomorrow morning.

Ok, here are the results:
freestyle - 55.86 seconds, 18th overall
backstroke - 53.47 seconds, 7th overall

Happy Aaron, Happy Daddy

My new favorite photo!

I told Aaron to take his dinner plate from the table to Rich in the kitchen. He said, "I can't. I'm singing a song." He treated us to a medley of 10 Little Monkeys, Hokey Pokey, and Rock-a-Bye Baby. Cute, included gestures and facial expressions.

Waffle House

Luke's assessment: "That's the best food I've ever had!"

I've started working seriously on getting back into shape - finally have motivation again. Running, Bikram yoga, a cleanse (vegan diet + herbs, fiber), and tracking everything online. I ran with Dad this morning for the first time in 1 1/2 years - it was great to go out with him, even though he is so much fitter than I am!