Swimming lessons and other pics

Abbey also likes to float under the diving board as well as water comes out of it too.

At the end of the lessons, the kids get to put their tubes back on and grab a toy and float around the pool for five minutes. Abbey's favorite thing to do is float over to the slide as their is a waterfall off the end of it.

Friday was dunk day-Here is Abbey under the water-she loved it and had no problem letting Kaitlyn dunk her all 3 times.

Abbey climbing out of the pool

Abbey jumping off the diving board to my cousin. She was the only one on Friday that didn't have to be thrown/pushed off the diving board to go in. My aunt helps out with the younger kids as Kaitlyn can't always leave the other kids alone while dealing with one of them who is giving her a hard time

My cousin Kaitlyn is the swimming instructor for the kids. Here she is holding Abbey as she swims to the side of the pool after jumping in.

Abbey and Leah waiting for Ethan to get out of the pool so that they can have their turn jumping in. Ethan and Leah have had a couple of rough days and a few tantrums but they survived the lessons-we shall see how this week goes.

Here they are doing the choo-choo train along the edge of the pool. Abbey is a little slower than the other two so she gets to lead the train to keep them all together. She has gotten faster as the week went on.

Here are the kids in their tubes and kicking their legs to get back and forth across the pool.

Abbey started swimming lessons this past Monday. She is taking them at my aunt's pool with Ethan Deemter and Leah Bleyenburg. Here are Abbey and Ethan sitting on the side of the pool waiting for their lessons to start.

Here they cooperated a little better:)

The kids were supposed to be looking at me but Abbey was interested in the commercial on TV and Gavin was intent on absolutely nothing on the floor

Abbey and Gavin sitting on the floor

Abbey thinks that she is being nice by holding up Gavin-she is really choking him and didn't know it

Abbey got a bike a couple of weeks ago and we got her a helmet and elbow pads as well-here she is showing them off for me-the helmet makes her head look even smaller:)

The kids on a Sunday morning before church(you can see who is ready first)

I told Abbey to give me a pretty smile and not a goofy smile-this is what I got

Gavin in the highchair drinking his juice

Abbey showing off how cool she is in Mommy's Tigers hat

We put Gavin to bed one night and when we checked in on him a little later, we found him sleeping on ALL his blankets in his bed(even the ones that were hanging on the crib)

New pics

I took some pictures of Abbey and Gavin today as they matched a little and looked really cute. It is very difficult to get them both to look at the camera at the same time and smile at the same time and long enough for me to get the picture. I think they turned out cute, but I may be a little biased:)

Abbey and Gavin in the sandbox again:)

Gavin having fun with the big bear.

Gavin looking at his new book

Paige and Abbey got Gator Golf

Gavin opening his Christmas present from Rick and Christy. We never got together with the Heyboer side of the family so Grandma Heyboer came over this past Wednesday along with Mom, Jenny, Paige and Jaydin. Gavin got a dump truck and 3 books.

Abbey and Gavin first thing in the morning.

Gavin looking at his new book that he got from Dr. Morley at his 9 month checkup.

I took some new pictures of Gavin this week. So here he is at nine months old.

Gavin tried to climb under his rocking chair and got stuck-he wasn't too happy to begin with and then got even more mad that I took pictures of him first instead of getting him out:)

Gavin chillin' in the backyard after sitting in the pool for a little while.

Abbey chillin' in her suit on the top of the sandbox. Matt built a cover for the sandbox as we have neighborhood wandering cats that would probably use it for a litter box if we didn't cover it up.

Gavin using the walker for the first time-he didn't do so well on the hardwood floor

Gavin with his head in the shelf again-it seems to be his favorite thing to do. He will put toys up on the shelf and then bang them around in there.

Gavin used Abbey to stand up-needless to say, Abbey was none to happy about it

Gavin with a Bud Light:)

Gavin finally figured out how to pull himself up in his crib. For a while he wasn't able to do it because his arms weren't long enough to reach the top and he couldn't figure out that he just had to use the posts to get to the top.

Abbey helping Gavin stand up

Gavin in just his diaper standing up

Abbey doing her best pouty face

Abbey and Gavin in the sandbox that Matt built for the kids in the yard next to the house.

Abbey loves riding in the wagon

Gavin's first wagon ride ever

Abbey and Gavin in the wagon for the first time this year.

So Matt and I both have been laid off from work so we have been busy trying to stay busy:) We aren't doing too bad though. We had a yard sale this past week so that made the week very busy as we already had quite a bit going on but Matt insisted that we have it this past week instead of this week like I wanted so that I had more time. Oh well, it is done:)