The Sinking Duo

The Sinking Duo. You can tell Pheb's sure loves her Jaxy.
Future Olympic swimmer? Maybe, maybe not.
Phebe concentrating on arms and kicking. I love her tongue sticking out.


This past week has been a busy one for us. I should be getting use to it. They tell me it's only going to get worse as the kids get older. Good thing there's only two of them. On to the Sinking Duo. The kids had their first swimming lessons this past week. On the first day, the Vocana kids tried drowning and scaring their teacher. Jaxon was the first one up to the challenge. He tried swimming up and down the pool. On the way back to the swallow end, he got tired and started going down. He was then put close to the edge in case he got tired again. Next was Phebe's turn in her class. The kids were learning how to jump into the water. They were doing one at a time. Phebe was waiting for her turn sitting on the steps into the pool. She slipped of the step and started sinking. Only my children. After the first day and we had no more problems. The kids became swimming fools. Jaxon learn how to dive and is loving that. Phebe has figured out that the noodle is cool to swim with and to practice kicking and using her arms. Next year, we will be definitely doing swimming lessons earlier in the summer. On a side note, the rest of our week was filled with unpacking our camping gear from our camping trip with my family last weekend, finishing up school shopping, missing Brian (he was in Portland all week for a Nursery Expo- getting us some cool free stuff), our stray dog getting hit by an orchard truck (only scrapping his mouth), and finding a dead muskrat in our basement that came in from the dryer vent.