This baby.

This baby melts my heart. Today he made the transition from Breastfeeding to Bottle feeding. I decided it was time.  This morning was a little hard for him. He cried and cried and cried some more then threw the bottle when it got near him.  He also threw a Sippy cup off the side of his high chair and even managed to hide the bottle I put in his bed with him to see if he would out of curiosity finish it on his own (it seemed like he hid it anyway--I found in behind his bumper pad against the crib bar). 

But after a while he gave in and tried his new bottle. He even gave me a few smiles while doing it. I seemed to have a lot more energy and really enjoyed giving him a bottle. I liked seeing more of his face and interacting a bit more. I felt a lot of love for him today as he made this transition. We enjoyed stories a little differently, and had fun playing as well. I am not sure what made the day so good but it was and I will always remember the fun we had after the sadness subsided.

Swimming

The boys are both taking swimming lessons this summer. Grant was not thrilled at this idea and claimed that he was already a good swimmer. He is in fact a pretty good swimmer, but, I just wanted to make sure they had a chance to learn all the strokes properly and understood water safety for sure. It's a little scary sending these kids off with out me every other week. Something I never thought I would be doing.

When we showed up for the first lesson Grant looked around with a little bit of horror as one six year old after another marched around the gathering spot for the lesson. He turned to me and said something like, "If this is full of kindergarten girls I am not going...I won't come back mom."  Turns out he had two other boys about his age in the class and his instructor is his dad's bishop's son. He seemed to really enjoy himself and told me that he loved it and that I was right about signing him up and even thanked me. WOW.  How is that for a pay day!

Spencer looked forward to his class and did quite well and enjoyed learning different types of floats. Matt took him and I was not able to go, I was getting a little sick.

Yesterday we decided to go to open swim prior to Grant's class starting at 4.  The water was ICY.  The lesson's are held indoors with walls that open up in the summer time. Josh and I were a little startled as we got in but the boys didn't bat an eye. Spencer used the kick board to get around the deep parts while Josh and I followed and Grant found a big mat to lounge on in a small patch of sunlight. After some time floating Grant came over to me and said, "I've been thinking about it and I'm gonna do it...Jump off the diving board."  :) So he did, and followed it up with a glance in my direction and a fist pump in the air as he made his way back to the board to go again. He is growing up and is still very much a boy and wants me to watch at the same time. I love it.

Spencer and I had fun too. I was impressed with Spencer's ability to remember in such great detail what he learned at his lesson and show it to me. His floats are spectacular.

Josh as usual loved splashing around and being around all the other people in the pool. He loves a crowd of noisy kids that's for sure.