Three cheers for Dad and Christian! The cat tower is now complete and our kitties are very satisfied with the end result. I think it looks like a nice piece of abstract art/furniture. Very functional! I would put up a picture, but we lost the memory card.
Yesterday was our last day of 2009 swim practice. We got to play water baseball and cross the ocean and all that good stuff. Unfortunately I did something weird to my arm at the meet last Saturday, so I was unable to swim with my arms for the whole week. I thought that because we were just playing games and not actually swimming yesterday, I would be OK.
Not so.
Cross the Ocean is usually a very fun game where you put two ‘sharks’ in the middle of the pool, and everyone else (minnows) at the end of the pool. When the sharks say “Cross the ocean!” the minnows must all jump in the water and swim to the other side of the ocean without being tagged by the two sharks. If you are tagged then you are a shark for the next round. Fun!!! So I got in the pool with 20 extremely energetic 6-10 year olds and all of the un-injured 11 and ups. I did really well for the first two rounds. I made it to the other end of the pool, in fact. Then the coach changed the rules around and made it so that the minnows could tag us on the tops of our heads only when our heads were above water. Heads below water generally mean actually swimming, but I managed. I was doing really really well in fact. When I was five feet away from touching the wall, this little girl who had been puppyguarding me and following me around the pool, tapped me on the top of my head as I came up for a breath. That was when I twisted around and popped my arm for the fifth time. Popping your arm hurts. It’s like it’s twisting out of your body which is a little gross, and then it hurts a lot for like 10 minutes afterwards. Anyway, I’m not going to be swimming in the championship meet. 🙁 I am comforted by the ice-cream party afterward though. 🙂 It’s Disney-themed. I’m leaning towards dressing up as the Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland since my Snow-White dress was bought when I was seven and no longer fits me. But I don’t know. Any Disney-themed costume suggestions for Christian and I?
Cousins are coming tomorrow!!!!!!! YAY!! I am beyond excited!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Pictures will come soon!
We played “Sharks and Minnows” a few times during swim practice… but it tended to get a little violent, what with kicking and shoving under water trying to get to the other side before running out of air.
Hope your arm feels better soon!
~Luke
Sorry to hear about your arm….are you going to have it checked out?
Can’t wait to see pics of the cat tower.
We have had relatives since the 16th of July….we had 30+ relatives at my parents home for their 52nd wedding anniversary and my Dad’s 75th birthday. Everyone leaves town this week 🙁
Something neat that my dad did..he copied everyone’s pics from their camera memory cards (all the pics that had been taken by 10-15 digital cameras since the beginning of this family reunion)and made one huge slide show to run on a huge TV screen. He updated nightly….we had over 1000 pictures plus videos. Lots of fun. We all ran to walmart to buy sandisk cruzers to get a copy of all the pics. So much fun and great memories!
I was unable to sleep last night thinking about the busy summer we have had and the fact that it has been mainly taken up my painting and relatives! Only got a smidge of homeschooling done and now I need to think about next year’s schedule. Thank goodness I don’t have to plan for Emma this year. We do, however have to rethink her classes. We think we signed her up for the wrong chemistry class…ugggg…she may have to wait till next semester to take Chem 400. Got some wrong advice from the counselor. Double ugg.
Luke – I was never a good enough swimmer to do that Sharks and Minnows thing. I was the first one out every time. In terms of the violence thing, I had now idea how violent things could get in the water until I saw my first high school water polo match. That was BRUTAL.
Ruthie – The anniversary, family reunion, and slide show thing sounds awesome. I know those kinds of slide shows are an incredible amount of work (I think Luke does even more complex stuff than that for a living), but it is WAY worth it. Once it is done, you have it forever. We have NO regrets about all the photos and videos we have taken over the years.
As for Emma’s classes, we have that coming up, too in one more year. I think Kelly (and Emma) will love going to college, but I have lots of BAD memories about scheduling, advising, and registering for classes. I guess it is just part of the package.