Swim Meet June 8-9

I'm a little behind on posting about last weekend's swim meet. Natalie was bummed about this one because she wouldn't be able to play with her cousins. We signed up for it because she was the one that wanted plenty of chances to achieve her TAGS time. Grandma and Grandpa did come to see her swim on Saturday morning when the weather wasn't too bad. I would have posted a picture of them with Natalie, but Grandma's eyes are closed and she probably would not want me to post that photo. This picture is also from Saturday, June 8th. Natalie hung out with friends in between races. She only swam in two races each day. It rained pretty hard at the start of the meet on Sunday and then it was unbearably humid after that.

The results of her four races during this meet are as follows:
100 m Freestyle--1:26.29 (added time from personal best=1:25.86)--placed 14th out of 32 girls ages 10 and under
200 m IM--3:28.74 (added time from personal best=3:27.57)--placed 7th out of 20 girls ages 10 and under
200 m Freestyle--3:06.80 (did better than previous personal best of 3:07.93)--placed 12th out of 18 girls ages 10 and under
50 m Freestyle--37.90 (did much better than previous personal best of 39.23)--placed 7th out of 31 girls ages 10 and under

Of note was the fact that her 50 m Freestyle time was more in line with what her time should have been the last time she swam the 50m Freestyle, when they had all of those glitches with the starting system. She did much better on Sunday than on Saturday. She was unhappy on Saturday, but felt better on Sunday. She's still on a quest to get TAGS times. We have another chance at the end of the month.

Between Eric and Natalie, they have been to 12 swim practices so far this week (more or less), with one more tonight. The one tonight is more of a team picture/pizza party, but still--that's a lot of swim practices. That's not even counting the two they missed. Our good friends took Eric to two of his evening practices, otherwise I've been to every single one, so we haven't been at home very much. Yesterday we had lunch with a friend of mine at Chili's after the second swim practice of the day (the neighborhood one) and then we got to spend a little time at home. This afternoon we get to spend a little time at home again, thankfully, and the kiddos have a couple of friends over here and they're watching the movie "Despicable Me" and eating popcorn.

Because it's only me here this week, I've been taking Eric to a lot of Natalie's swim practices. I took this photo this morning. I had just changed him into his swimsuit since we were going straight to the neighborhood practice after Natalie's morning practice. He couldn't resist stepping in all the puddles around the natatorium pool, of course. He also realized that his wet flip flops made a pattern on the dry pavement, so he kept looking back where he had stepped to see his footprints on the pavement. I love the joy of experiencing the simple things at this age.

Alex is coming home tonight! Yay! Eric is getting excited about Alex coming home. We miss him!