David and I sat down with a very talented artist and had our portraits painted(colored).
David, who, usually has some sort of facial hair (although he keeps getting callings where it is better if he is clean shaven) has a nice beard in the painting.
Scanning my painting onto the computer doesn't do it justice since you now can not see my glitter eyelashes.
Thank you Chloe for the beautiful portraits of daddy and I!!!
I'm taking steps!!!!! I'm not officially walking just taking a few steps before I fall down. But, don't worry, I'll be WALKING before you know it. I can't wait to run after Jacob and Chloe instead of crawl after them! (That will save me some time) I also have 4 teeth. 2 on top and 2 on bottom. Oh ya, I turn ONE in 41 days, not that I'm counting or anything. Here's some pics my mom took of me today while I was taking some steps. Yea, for me!!!! :)
So, everytime we are at gymnastics class with our kids, David, (why are we not surprised) wants to do it. He said he has never been able to touch his toes. He was always asking the guy at the front desk about doing an adult class. Well, finally all of the bugging paid off for him! Last night they started their first class. It was free so we could all go and try it out. Obviously since we are all adults there is only so much we can do. The teacher (male, so David doesn't have to feel so alone)said it will be a combination of gymnastics and strenght training.
Class started with warm up and some good stretching. Then off to the spring board to try our hand at hand stands. From there we learned to go from a hand stand to a roll (I don't know the correct term) and then back up to our feet. We also practiced cart wheels. I actually didn't do too bad. David did pretty good too! Imagine that.
Then they had us doing push ups and core (stomach) excercizes. Then off to some leg lifts making sure you TIGHTEN everything (stomach, butt, legs)while doing it. After an hour of all of that EVERYTHING is sore. Escpecially my wrists!!
Now maybe you didn't care to know the whole class is detail, but I know hearing adult gymnastics you may think, "What do you do in that? Walk along the balance beam?" :)
A couple of weeks ago we wanted to get away before the summer ends so we decided to head down to San Diego. We went with some friends and spent a day at the beach, swimming in the pool, and bike riding in the evening. The next day we went to Sea World. Chloe loved it! She has such a love of animals so she told me she like it better than Disneyland. The next day we headed to Legoland to check it out. It's perfect for my kids ages. They have little kid rides, a fun water area where the kids can climb and play all while getting drenched, and a lot of interactive things for kids to do. David has always had a love of Legos so his dream came true when we finally were able to go!!! It was a lot of fun to get away but now we are back to reality and Kindergarten for Jacob!! (More on that later) Bella even cut two teeth while we were gone!! Yea, for Bella.
I thought this pictures was funny so I thought I would post it. This is Jacob throwing a water balloon off of my brother's head.
After going everyday to swim lesson for 6 weeks (well at least m-f) we decided to end our swimming lessons for the summer. Jacob and Chloe had so much fun but let me tell it was so nice to wake up yesterday morning and not have to rush out the door!! OH MY GOSH... write now as I was writing this there was an earthquake!! My hands are shaking so bad because I had to run around and check on the kids while it was happening!!! My heart is beating so fast. It wasn't bad (here at least) but everything was shaking inside our house. Jacob and Chloe were outside and Bella was asleep so I had to run around. You are not supposed to do that during an earthquake but what do you do when you have to check on your kids!! When you start feeling the shaking you don't know how bad it is going to get and that is what is scary. I'm looking at the news now and they said it was a 5.4. It was centered probably about an hour away from me. Ok, sorry I'll stop talking about it now. It was just crazy because I was writing this when it happened. My cell phone and my home phone are not working so I can't call David.
Alright back to swimming. Their last day of swimming is called Firday Fun day. Here is some pictures from that day. (I know all I post are swimming pictures lately, sorry)
This is Chloe too scared to jump from the top, so she jumped from the second step
This is her telling me, "Mom, I jumped all by myself!"
She is ready for a morning nap!!!!!!!
Jacob wanted to do a big splash with the lifeguard
