O'Toole's Luck O' The Irish: Swimming and such

Random updates about the kiddos: Connor is an eating machine! He eats about 10 containers of baby food a day (sometimes more), and thoroughly enjoys any other pieces of food that we throw his way. He can use a sippy cup very well, but hasn't quite figured out the straw thing. He has mastered walking and is getting pretty fast now. He is a good sleeper, but it seems as though he is trying to get rid of his 2nd nap of the day. His 7th tooth just busted through the gum line (left lower lateral incisor). He plays very well on his own and is happy as long as he is free to walk. He just got over his first ear infection (diagnosed on April 17th). He has been enjoying swim lessons. So far, he's done one session at the Y and is now doing a session at Springfield Gymnastics and Aquatics (pretty cool, but much more expensive than the Y).

Madeline has been enjoying soccer on Monday nights with some of her preschool buddies. She likes pushing the ball around with her head and walking on the abc's of the soccer field. Madeline has become more independent in many different ways. She recently got promoted to the "big kids class" at gymnastics! She's out there on her own with the other little kiddos and doing great. We appreciate everything Miss Katherine taught us, and now it's up to Mr Nick to continue the fun! Madeline is showing improvement at swim lessons by jumping into the water all by herself, swimming around with her floatie backpack at the Y, and going down the BIG slide at SGA. She is trying to figure out the time/space continuum, learning about the meaning of words like yesterday, tonight, next week... funny.