Yep, 29 days into our summer vacation, we have had our first lazy day of summer. I was so excited after discovering last night that there were no morning practices. You heard me right! After 2 different swim meets this last week-end, recreational swimming team has come to an official end. We are sad because we LOVE the Edgebrook coaches, but DELIRIOUS that we get to have our first sleep in. Now, we just have year-round swimming and it's at a reasonable hour only 2-3 times a week in the morning. No more double and triple practices. Hurray!
I told CG that it was sleep in day last night, so he, in his military prop-ah-
ness, would not try to awaken us. I slept until 9 AM! I haven't slept that late in well over a y
ear. The boys slept until 8 AM, which is really sleeping in for Eldest since he has an internal clock that has told him to wake up at 6 AM since he was 18 months old. Then there is PB. She's still sleeping. She seems to be the one who needs sleep the most. She is definitely like my father-in-law.
In fact, at the second swim meet, in the pouring rain, between events, she fell fast asleep. I woke her up 5 minutes before her 100 Free. She was not pleased. She was cranky,
bitchalicious to me. She told me she wasn't swimming. She's never like this! She loves meets and competition. She just was so tired. I sent her to her wonderful KING coach Peter and at least she was gracious to him. Then her rec. coach (who also coaches for an opposing team during year-round) also got her enthused. Again, can't say enough about how cool Coaches Laura, Anthony, and Kevin are. All I can say is thank God for swim coaches. They don't get paid enough for all their hard work and hours at pools and meets.
Anyway, as I write this, I hear that familiar giggle from PB. She only slept until 9:38! She's back in her all perkiness glory. Good! She should be happy. Two months after surgery and three week after getting her pins out and cast off, she came in 5th overall in her 25 Back at Champs. After just finally being able to straighten her arm fully last week because of shortened muscles, she had the ninth fastest time in the 25 Free. Her relays didn't do so shabby either. I'm so proud of her determination, which is why it was sad to see her so unhappy and dispirited at the meet on Sunday. Her 200 IM was exhausting in a long course pool and she was DQ-ed on just one one-arm pull for her fly segment. To make it worse, her goggles were leaking the entire 200--she said she hiccuped which made one arm come out instead of two. Ooooh! Poor baby! I couldn't do a 50 fly much less a 200 IM at age 34 years, and here she was giving her best at 7 years old after surgery. The 50 Breast was better, but then she thought she DQ-ed on her 100 Back (she didn't--it was the lane next to her) and her spirit just left the pool. After her nap between events, her 100 Free was pretty tough. But now, after some sleep, she's giggling. Maybe she just needed some sleep. The 6 doughnuts we let her eat from Krispy Kreme yesterday might have helped too. Just saying...
So after enjoying this morning--the kids are making chocolate chip muffins and calling each other "pathetic"--I start my plans to get Li'l Man to try out for year-round swimming. He was too shy to cajole most of the season into swimming at a meet. Yet, we did get him to one (I bribed him with going to see "Transformers" if he got into the pool)and he swam the requisite 25 Free and 25 Back with style. He was adorable and actually did okay. I already see our practice load increasing. But, I see such adorable promise in these pictures:
Look at my 5 year old!
Can I gush anymore!
P.S. CG told me he had slept in too! He didn't even wake up until 5:40! What a lazy bastard. :)
P.S. Parte deux: So no more perkiness. PB just called Li'l Man stupidest because he wouldn't let her stir the muffins. I can hear my Eldest getting very frustrated refereeing between the two. It does him good to see how it feels to be between the bickering. Yep, I am hiding in the loo while writing this.
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