A LONG week

Thank God for caffeine! I haven't had real coffee for the past two years and this past week I have had coffee every single day. With Gina in Kindergarten, I now have to get up around 6:30am but I'm still going to bed way too late. Without caffeine, I'm in a bleary-eyed state, struggling to figure out what to put into three lunches and get out the door by 8am. Once at work, loaded with caffeine, I'm wide awake and ready to go.

So far, having the three kids in three different places hasn't been too bad. The hard part is getting everyone up, get breakfast, and get all the lunches together. Dylan gets Cheerios while the big kids get their breakfast and he then has more breakfast at daycare. Gina needs a snack as well as a lunch on the days that she goes to after school care. When I plan ahead, Dylan's lunch is already made, but if not, it takes awhile to put everything together. In theory, Andrew is the easiest. He has the same cereal every morning and he isn't too picky about what I pack in his lunch. This week however he decided to sleep in each morning, stare at his cereal for 5-10 minutes before eating, and then balk at getting dressed. Vic took him to daycare on Wednesday because he wasn't even close to being ready when it was time to go.

Luckily, next week is a short week, I need the weekend to recover.

Andrew Swims

I've been meaning to write about this all week. Andrew had his swim lesson last Monday and this time I decided to leave Dylan at daycare and let Andrew have a lesson by himself. It has been tougher with Dylan and Andrew than it was with Gina and Andrew as a baby. I hold onto Dylan with one hand and then Andrew hangs on for dear life on the other side. He doesn't want fins, he doesn't want to sit on the side, he doesn't want to go under water. He reluctantly goes to
teacher Gina and goes under water for her but he is not happy about it. Then during playtime, he sits on the steps and watches the other kids play in the water.

Then on Monday he decided swimming was actually fun.He was still reluctant to put on the fins, but once he went under water the first time he was hooked. He swam back and forth between me and Gina, he swam to the side and pulled himself out, he swam to the platform in the middle of the pool and then launched himself to swim back to me or Gina. He swam for 25 minutes during the lesson and then continued in the shallow area for another 10 minutes. It was hard to get him to come out. He was so proud of himself.