Swim Team

This year was also Brooklyn's first year of being on the swim team. We had two meets in Lamar and this was one of them. Brooklyn's age group just used the paddle boards and swam across the small pool. I thought it was a little lame. When Abby was that age the had to actually swim across the lap pool and do all the different strokes. The teachers had to help them across but at least they were practicing for a real race! They had too many kids on the team this year to be able to fit the youngest racers in so this was their compromise. The kids all had fun with it anyway.

Here's Brooklyn racing across the pool. She did really well with it and didn't even push off the bottom like a lot of the kids were doing.



And here she is with her participation ribbon!

This is Abby gearing up for her race. Abby is doing really well with all of her strokes but she loves freestyle and backstroke the most. We're trying to get her not to look around at the crowd during her race and stay focused! She's much faster that way! As it is she always starts out in first and then she gets too tired to keep up her pace. I think she ended up with a couple of first place ribbons, some second, and some 3rd for both meets. But she's usually only racing against 3 or 4 girls!

Grandma Lu and Grandpa Sim came to cheer the girls on. Jace loves Lulu (as he calls her)! And Grandpa Sim is always sure to bring some candy to keep him occupied! What's not to love?