Diving In and KAZ

The kids are taking swimming lessons at the local middle school again this year. This is the fourth year in a row that our oldest two have taken them. This is Coy's first year. Funny how kids grow up. Last year, we were begging Caleb to jump off the diving board. This year, he has been doing front flips off of the diving board (more like back splatters but every once in a while he gets all the way around). Well, Coy is really progressing in his swimming and today he got to jump off of the diving board into 12 feet of water. That is not the amazing thing though. The amazing thing is that Stacey can sit by and watch these kids do these things. Caleb and Katie swim up and down the pool like little fish too.

A good friend of mine that lives in central Kentucky got news today that their adoption dossier has been submitted to the Kaz consulate in Washington DC. They have been waiting to get past this hurdle for quite a while and now they have. What this means is that they will likely get to travel to Kaz for an adoption within 11 months, but hopefully sooner. The process in country seems to be a little different than Ukraine but the result will ultimately be the same. A child that does not have a home today will ultimately get a forever family. Way to go Kara and Michael. Stay with it....

Caleb was the third grade camper of the week at his basketball camp. Not sure out of how many but it didn't matter to him. His reward was what looked like an old Floyd Central HS jersey that won't fit him for 5 years or so. We were all pretty excited about it though. Katie is excelling at her drama camp this week. All except for the getting up and getting ready to go part. She thought that she was going to be doing one of those big productions like "Sound of Music" or something. I don't think she needs any practice at drama but perhaps this will give her an outlet for her drama other than here at home with us.

We are really enjoying the pool too. At least when it is not raining we are.

Don't Eat the Ice Cream

When you come to our house and we offer you ice cream, you might want to double check and make sure that it is a brand new package and not one that we have already opened as evidenced by the video. Katie and Coy love ice cream. Caleb can take it or leave it. We were playing a version of baseball in the pool tonight and Katie and I lost and Stacey and Caleb won and Coy was just kinda in the pool. When we lost, Katie storms off mad and Stacey yells "Losers get ice cream." Coy, who was not even paying attention, yelled "Mom, I'm a loser!". Nobody got ice cream tonight.

Coy had his well child check up the other day. Unfortunately, I was out of town so I did not get to go but I will report what Stacey reported back to me. He is in the 75th percentile in height and 60th in weight. No real other concerns. According to Stacey, our regular pediatrician was acting very sleepy so he wasn't his usual happy self so she didn't get a lot out of him. Oh well, Coy seems to be very healthy anyway. He did get three shots and blood drawn.

Katie appears to be healing very well. She was able to do the monkey bars over the weekend just 4 weeks after breaking her collarbone. She goes back to the no good Orthopedist in a couple of weeks but we are pretty much letting her do most things already. This is Katie at her soccer team awards dinner. She is going to practice with her travel team in the fall but play games at Graceland.

Caleb made the all-star team of the Lanesville baseball league. There are just three teams and the coach picked at least 5 kids off of Caleb's team but he was excited just the same.

The kids have a pretty jam packed first few weeks of summer. Basketball camp, swimming, drama camp, and probably some soccer camps and probably a soccer tournament.

This is vintage Coy happy face.