Schu News: Goals and Gators

This month, we have kept busy with a flury of activities, and now that June has begun, we are getting even busier. So I decided to take this afternoon and blog our goings on from May. Will finished his soccer season at the beginning of the month. He seemed to improve from the first of the season, and I think he learned some things about teamwork and not being a sore loser, although we have to remind him of these lessons occasionally ;). Both Brighton and Will took swimming lessons this month, and they did very well. They are both swimming like little fish, but I still keep their life jackets on in the pool because I inherited my Dad's David Hasslehoff-water-safety gene. I had a wonderful Mother's Day where I was waited on by my husband and sung to by my kiddos. Jon bought me a watch and the kids bought me flowers and made cards. We also got outside as much as possible this month. Besides going to the pool, we took a few hikes through the swamp to encounter as much of Louisiana's wildlife as possible (at a safe distance, of course.)

He may not have been the best player on the field, but at times, he was certainly the happiest!

Will was so happy to get another medal!

We are so proud of you, Will!!!

After soccer ended, the kids took swimming lessons together. Jon took this picture after their first lesson. You can imagine how tired the teacher must've been! They actually did very with the last few lessons. They are crazy about the water, so we go to the pool at least twice a week now.

This was our Mother's Day celebration at church. The kids sang "Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho" and "When the Saints Go Marching In." Brighton was old enough to participate this year, and both she and Will did a very good job singing. I was a proud Mommy!

One Saturday afternoon, we headed to one of our favorite spots...Fontainebleu State Park.

It takes a little while to get to the wetlands because we move at Brighton's pace.

Will spots something!!!

Look closely, and you can see a little alligator. It was probably about three feet long and while we were there it slowly swam closer and closer to us and then CHOMPED down on an unsuspecting blue crab. Very cool!

This is Will's reenactment of the alligator eating the crab. (He's also wearing his alligator shirt, which he chose in the hopes that it would lure a a gator to us.)

On a different Sunday afternoon, we went to a swamp we had never been to before. This one had hiking paths that were much more narrow. We had heard that to hike the entire trail would be about five miles, so we decided to break out the double jogging stroller that we haven't used in quite a while. At one point, as Jon was trying to maneuver over a fallen tree, he fell and took the stoller with him. Other than some scratches on Jon, no one was hurt, but we were left carrying two shaken up little ones AND pushing an empty stroller for the rest of the hike! We still managed to get a few good pictures.