Soccer AND Swimming Week

Hadley had her first (EVER) soccer camp in addition to her first (EVER) swimming lessons this week!  Both have been awesome experiences for her (for all of us really), and she has shown nothing but excitement and willingness each morning we've set out.  We've had quite the range of weather to contend with though - we had some serious thunderstorms one day, a heat/humidity index of nearly a 100 another day, and some pretty chilly wind this morning if you were the little one with blue lips in the pool.  We have just one day left of soccer tomorrow, but a whole week left of swimming. 

The soccer camp is put on by a group out of England (complete with accents).  The coaches have been great, and a lot of fun for the kids to listen too!

She has come a long way, as the first day she tried to dribble her soccer ball like a basketball (much to her dad's delight!).

Piper has been an absolute trooper over the week, just content to cheer Hadley on and watch from the sidelines.  Kyle was able to join us this morning too!











Swimming lessons are actually right across the street from our neighborhood, but across town from soccer which runs just 15 minutes before swimming!  Hadley is now the master of changing in the car.

Both of Hadley's teachers (Melissa above, Kayla left) have been fantastic.  The perfect combination of patience but also persistence. Hadley just dipped her nose in with Melissa, and is trying really hard to be okay with water in her ears with Kayla.





Isn't that thumbs up hilarious?  The first day she was pretty hesitant to not have me right at the pool's edge (little tricky with Piper), so we devised a way to tell each other how we were doing :)