Showing posts with label Life Jacket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life Jacket. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Plans change.......

We were supposed to be on this boat on Saturday morning - doesn't it look peaceful! This was supposed to be Riley's first ever sailboat ride, and she was prepared with her Dora lifejacket and a reminder that there may or may not be a potty so she might have to hold it for a long time. Ahhhhh, we were excited because our whole family loves sailboats, but we don't know how to sail and we don't have a boat so getting to go on one is always a treat especially when it includes a skipper or captain or whatever you call the good fellow that does all the hard work while you sit back and relax..............ahhhh someday we will own our very own sailboat, I know it.

But did you notice that the lake looks like glass, that's not so good for sailboating since they kinda need wind to go? Did you notice the haze from the incredible heat that was already making itself known at 8:30 in the morning? Did you notice that we really aren't on that boat, it's just anchored in the cove?

Quick change of plans - watch Aunt Sarah run her first ever 5k - woohoo.
I don't remember her time, but she did good and beat lots of people (even some guys which is pretty cool) and with the heat and humidity (remember the haze above) I think it was impressive she ran the whole way, but that's me, the non-runner, talking.

Riley ran a little "5k" of her own too - I was quite impressed when she ran a good 200-300 yds or so - that's a lot of steps for a little gal!! And that's my mom running with her while I stopped to snap a picture, because it's not every day that your 2 1/2 year old runs their first "5k" - and her time, 21:20........so not really, but the ladies were real nice to flip thru their sheets and look up "her time" for her which I thought was sweet, and she thinks that was her time which is all that matters!

The highlight of that hour in scorching heat & humidity was a little wooden airplane that she got from the State Farm table, she loved it.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

One, Two, Ka-Pow


Watch out Olympic hopefuls because Riley Jean is a swimming machine (ha that rhymes). Riley has never been able to swim all by herself, even though she has wanted to, and she was incredibly excited at the fact that with her new life jacket (sporting Dora and Boots of course) that she could float, turn in a circle and swim with no help from mommy and daddy!


Doesn't she just look like a synchronized swimmer here



She LOVED that she could float "all by herself" - look no hands

One of her favorite things (well besides jumping off the side about a thousand times while saying one, two, ka-pow - and I'm not sure where three went or where she got ka-pow, but whatever I'm the mom so I think I'm not supposed to always get it) was rescuing her daddy. She would swim out (straight up and down in the water with her little feet running as fast as they would go) and haul him back to the stairs. It was precious, and while I didn't get a great video but at least it's recorded forever in history.