Our 4th and a Face Update...

We had a busy but great holiday weekend!  The kids had their final swim lesson on Friday afternoon and although all 3 of them need to stay at the same level next go round they all have come so far!  Before this Lucy never would have even walked to the deep end of the pool much less JUMP IN!  Max never would have jumped in either but he did too.  Abby is more of a daredevil and even jumped in off the platform.  She is the one who is more serious about taking more lessons and becoming a swimmer.


I wish I had some pictures of the lessons but I had Ruby to watch while we were there so I couldn't take my eyes off her long enough to get a picture.  She would have been the one to walk right into the pool!


Max was supposed to have a tournament this weekend for the travel baseball team but it got cancelled because they didn't have enough teams to participate.  His coaches cancelled practice for the weekend too...it was a much needed break from baseball ;p


Saturday morning was spent cleaning, cleaning, cleaning.  since my kitchen was as spotless as it was going to get John went and picked up Chick-fil-a for lunch :)  John's parents arrived at about 1:00 for a visit.  They took us to Outback for dinner Saturday night and it was SO YUMMY!  Even better than the food was the fact that all 4 kids behaved SO WELL!  Max has long since stopped ordering off the kids menu so he had some bread, a big chunk of bloomin' onion, a house salad with thousand island dressing, a 1/2 order of baby back ribs, french fries, and a few pieces of my steak.  He ate every bite and there wasn't a bit of meat left on the rib bones.  What are we going to do when that kid becomes a teenager?  YIKES!


Sunday morning we just hung out around the house and after John's parents left he headed to the pool with Abby and Lucy.  We had planned for all of us to go but Max was having some pretty serious behavior issues (talking back, pitching fits, lack of respect for his sister's stuff) so after telling him he wouldn't be able to go to the pool if he kept up the attitude, he kept it up so he stayed home with me and Ruby.  He wasn't happy about it and it was hard on the rest of us but the boy has got to learn that his actions have consequences and if we don't follow through then he'll just get worse.