The jerome fish.... and my super reader.

Kortne and Austin are doing swimming lessons now and they are just about done with the 6+ week lessons. They are doing really well, especially Kortne. Austin is able to go under water and hold his breath for a few seconds and kind of swim. When he is out of breath he lifts up and makes sure to squeegee off all the water from his face. Kortne pushes off throws her face in the water and swims for 4-5 strokes. Once she gets the breathing part figured out she'll be able to swim, I think. They both absolutely love swimming. We go to free swim and play and goof together. They usually end up ganging up on dad and taking me down. They can both go down the water slide all by themselves now. Kortne has no trouble and Austin only goes under once in a while. Overall he is doing really well with it too.

Today Austin had the three little pigs play at school. Last night he told me he was a narrator along with two other girls. It was so funny because Austin said one of the little girls wants to marry him. We saw her at Target one day and she is definitely sweet on Austin. So the narrators read about what was going on during the play as other kids (less skilled at reading) would act out the play. They had some lines but usually Ms Anderson had to go whisper in their ear what the page said. Austin read very well and even read with intonation which was pretty cool. He didn't know I was going to be there so I snuck in and sat down and watched their rehearsal for a while. He looked up and saw me and got the biggest smile and did the little quick wave, like get over here dad. So I scooted up and sat by him. He was so excited and he did a really good job.