Swimming, Soccer and School Supplies

This week was our last full week of summer - it sure has gone fast!

We celebrated our final Popsicles in the Park with a water balloon toss/fight. We are sad to see this part of summer end; it's been nice hanging out with our friends while the kids play with theirs.

This week, Cora participated in a Kidz Love Soccer morning camp. She enjoyed it, and received a new soccer ball at the end.

 

The group did drills, and then divided into teams and played short games against the other teams. The coaches tracked the scores and goals, like in a tournament. They chose Cora to be captain of her team, and she picked England to be their country.

Also this week, both girls finished a short set of swimming lessons at the city pool. Violet took part in the Level III class, where she worked on diving, floating and different strokes. She did very well, and it was fun watching her improve.

Cora took part in the strokes class, where she swam up and down the lanes doing a variety of strokes - freestyle, breast, butterfly and backstroke. She enjoyed it, too.

After the final swimming lesson, we went to Walmart to buy the girls' school supplies. It took a while to find the right items requested by the teachers; nothing an ice cream cone couldn't fix though!

 We also had a playdate this week with Juliana, Maya and Natalia. They returned from their long summer trip to Brazil last week.

We got all caught up on the summer's happenings and had lunch together. These big girls met when they were 1, and now they're big third graders.





And both little sisters will be in school, too. Natalia is going to transitional kindergarten since she's a couple of months too young for kinder.