Olympic Athlete

So I have to spend a moment and brag about my little Adalie. She is going to be an Olympic Swimmer! Let me back up......we have been in a hotel for over 3 weeks now and so we do a lot of swimming everyday! Adalie and Hallie's abilities in the water have increased 200%. They can hold their breath underwater for a long period of time. Hallie can do it for 8 seconds and Adalie just made it to 22 seconds--she is only 4years old-okay so she turns 5 next week, but still pretty cool!!! In addition, Adalie is learning the freestyle stroke and she can do it for approximately 13 feet! Her actual swimming started by Nate taking her to the deep end and holding her on her belly and then letting go and she would swim for her life to where she could touch. Mean I know, she was scared out of her mind, but now enjoys it and does so well. She can also do 1 1/2 flips underwater and does it so gracefully. When we were all done swimming today I told her she was our ticket to the Olympics and then asked her is she knew what that meant and she said, "Yeah I am going to be on TV and do all the Olympic stuff". She was so proud of herself as she should be!!

So I am going to let you in on Nate's little secret, he doesn't read this so I can tell you haha. While in the pool today Nate asked me what I would be if I could be any fictional character, I told him I didn't know and he paused since there was another guy in the room (he wanted to wait until that guy was gone) then he flew back into the water and said, "a mermaid". He makes me laugh. Anyways, Adalie and Hallie get their swimming ability from Nate 100%. Adalie will pass me up in a few years. Hallie is impressive as well. She holds onto Nate's back while he pretends to be a sea turtle and he will swim from one end of the pool to the other and they are both completely submerged.

Just some things to remember about my girls:

Adalie:
When someone is crying in our house Nate always says, "there's no crying in baseball" from  A League of Their Own, well today Reid was crying and Adalie said, "Reid we don't cry at baseball games."

Nate and I had a wedding video made and Adalie watched it for like 8 or so hours straight on our drive out to Ohio and she cried though it most of the way. I think she is really touched by it and so it makes her cry. Well she since has watched it many times and still cries. I have to hold her and she tells me she loves mommy and daddy. She is so sweet, it melts my heart. When she wants to watch it we try to convince her to watch other movies, but she insists.


Hallie has become the comedian in our family:
I was getting ready to go somewhere with the girls and Hallie was trying to get me to hurry so she said, "Woman lets go!"

She was wearing her beloved ND shirt and Adalie has the same shirt in a bigger size so I said,"Hallie you're lucky you can wear Adalie's ND shirt when you get bigger." and she said, "I'm lucky? No, you're lucky"

I had to wake her up to take Adalie to preschool and she said, "this girl is not getting up"

Then she picked her nose and flicked the booger on the ground and said, "It's for the birds, they like it, its booger chips."

When we got to Ohio we did a lot of house searching and the girls we sooo sick of it, well we pulled up to a house and immediately Hallie said, "I hate this stupid house"--yeah she has a potty mouth for a 3 year old haha

Okay now I can not forget my sweet Reid. Nate thinks I am a freak with the way I talk to Reid because I say things like, "I love this little boy and I am going to eat his face off". Well now Adalie sounds just like me and every morning she wakes up and sounds something like this, "Where is Reid, I want to eat his little face, he is the cutest little butt, I just want to love all over his little face". Anyways, here is a picture of the most precious little boy I know.

 I know I am his mother, but isn't he adorable?

My babies--Wow I have 3 kids!! Crazy!!