Kyle swimming lessons

Kyle completed 2 weeks of Beginner B swimming lessons at our community pool.  He had a great time and is becoming more confident in the water.  He passed almost all of the skills of an advanced beginning swim student.  He is able to streamline and kick 5M, back float and kick 5M, swim 5 meters basic freestyle, and do a deep water jump and recovery.  He still needs to work on rhythmic breathing which is basically taking a breath as you are swimming so you can go even further.  He tends to stop swimming completely and stand up when he needs to take a breath and then keeps going.  He had a great time jumping off the diving board and learning to tread water.  He is able to tread for about 10 seconds.  I'm hoping to sign him up for the August session so he can master that last skill.  And after two weeks of watching Kyle Max has decided that he might want to try Beginner A in August so if there are spots left I'm planning to sign them both up.

Kyle's last day of 2nd grade

Today was Kyle's last day of 2nd grade.  Max and I went to the end of year party in his classroom at school.  A few of the other parents and I got together and planned something fun for the last day.  It was also his teacher's last day at Lake Seneca (she'll be moving on to teach middle school next year) so we did something nice for her as well.  Kyle had a great year and really seems to be a leader in his class.  I loved watching how take charge he is and had a lot of fun dancing with his friends. They also had McDonald's for lunch.  Max loved being a part of it all! 

Bike riding

Max has been having lots of fun learning to ride a bike.  This is the first year he's really tried it so he still has training wheels but he's finally getting the hang of pedaling and breaking on his own.  We've been doing lots of bike riding around the neighborhood these last few weeks that Kyle is still in school and he has off. 

Max's last soccer class

Max really enjoyed soccer this spring.  He had a great time with his friends Ben and Lucas and maybe even learned a little bit about soccer. :)  Mostly I think he had fun running around with his friends!  You can tell from the picture that he always worked up quite a sweat after each session.  He was very proud of his medal!

Happy Birthday Ben!

On Saturday Max was invited to his friend Ben's birthday party.  It was at his house and a horse theme.  Each child got a horse and a cowboy hat.  They had craft time where they each made a ribbon for their horse and gave him/her a name.  Max named his horse "Eyeball."  Then they went outside to the horse corral and had horse races.  They also played horseshoe toss and pin the tail on the horse.  Then we came inside for food . . . hot dogs, watermelon, and popcorn as requested by the birthday boy.  There was lots of other food as well.  Then we headed back outside for a horse piñata where Max got quite a collection of candy to bring home.  It was a very creative party and Max had a great time!

Buddy Day

Yesterday was "Buddy Day" at Kyle's karate studio.  He chose to bring Max as his buddy.  He was very helpful and good with him during class.  Max was soooo excited to be there with all the big kids doing karate!  He did a great job and has decided he wants to take karate now because he knows how to do it.  He was quite cute to watch.  I think he still needs some practice, but he's very confident in his new skills. :)  We may let him try it out this fall and see if it's something he'll stick with.  Those students who brought a buddy got to do saber sparring using blockers against an instructor.  Overall it was a more low key, fun class. 

Max's Preschool Graduation

Max had his last day of preschool today.  I can't believe that time has come already.  He will miss his friends but we hope to do lots of playdates this summer and he's really looking forward to kindergarten in the fall.  They had a special celebration for the last day of school.  Families were invited to spend the last part of the day at school.  The kids each got a certificate and sang some end of year songs.  We also had nice spread of food and time with all his friends and teachers.  It was a great year.  Max really loved preschool, his teachers, and all the friends he made.