SPCA camp, bowling and more swim lessons...

Our busy summer continues....
On Wednesday the boys headed out with Grandpa for a morning day camp at the SPCA.  They did some crafts, saw the animals, played with the kittens and learned about the SPCA.  They reported back that they had a good time, and got Taco Bell for lunch (= happy boys). 

 Wednesday night we sent Cody off on his first sleepover at a friends house.  The boys had a good time, playing games, watching a movie and talking until 10:30ish.  He's pretty go with the flow, so we didn't get any late night calls that he was ready to come home.  Hmmm, I'm seeing over night camps in our future!  

Thursday we had a Momtourage play date for some swimming fun.   We were only missing one family, so it was a full pool!  It's always great to see everyone and the kids still get excited to see each other.  Jen treated us to snow cones and I'm pretty sure we found our summer paradise!

Friday marked the last day of Cody's first swim session.  Otherwise known as slide day.  

Tyler hunkered down with a friend playing her Leapster.

 While waiting for their slide time, his class played "Red light, Green light."

 Waiting for his turn...

 1st time down...

 Swimming to the edge...

 2nd turn...

 His swim session went pretty well.  We are on the fence as to whether he'll stay in this class or if he can move up a level.  We need to work on getting him comfortable on his back and swimming with a back stroke.  He also needs to learn to dive a bit better, like off the wall.  So we'll see what we can do over the next couple of weeks.  I would like to move him up because the class will be a lot smaller, so he'll have more time with the instructor and he'll be pushed a little bit more with new strokes and distance. 

Friday afternoon we finally took advantage of our Kids Bowl Free coupons.  We signed up the kids so that they can bowl 2 free games every day of the summer at a select bowling alley.  It's a great program, and after going to the alley that is hosting the program once, it's wasn't as awful as I remembered it to be! 

 He ran back to his seat most turns....

We were there with some friends and we all bowled the first game, then let the little ones sit out the second round.  I finally broke 100 the second game, with a only a bit of help from the bumpers, giving Teresa and I a tied score.  Can't wait to go back again!  Thanks to a tip from another friend, we found out this alley does $1 shoes & games every weekday from 3-6pm and on Fridays they have $1 specials at the snack bar.  

Tyler started his group lessons today as well.  He's signed up for 5 Saturday lessons for 45 min each, then he'll jump into a two week session at the end of July the same time as Cody.  

Doing his bobs in the water...

 kick board...

 His lazy freestyle...

 "Red light, green light"

We talked before lessons and I thought we had him geared up to learn, but it all fell apart pretty quickly.  He didn't really like the teacher (this is an annoying theme with him right now), so he wasn't very willing to try things.  He also wouldn't put his face in the water while learning his stroke, so he was sinking.  Needless to say, we have some pool work to do this week before class next weekend.  Fingers crossed we can push through.