"A Wink and a Smile"

I think I would go with the purple .  The flowers on the green ones might just be a little over the top ... just my opinion. *Today Miss {m} got her glasses ... isn't she the cutest!

Seriously they are quite slim, but their bellies seem to grow while swimming ... Then again eating all this ... and drinking all of this probably doesn't help ...

METAL to the MAX!!!! I think we will stop at three (or until one of us is done and it is time for the next one).  I'm sure our wonderful orthodontist would love our money for his next family cruise, but we need to feed, house, and educate our children. These smiles better be worth it ;)

The cute swimmer boy caught me taking a picture of him ... I was walking by taking pictures ... 'cause that is what I do , when I happened to take note of the two young men with the messy, swimmer hair. This is the kind of hair that has lost all life and just sticks up in all directions. Usually it is colored much the same ... "FADED" (that is the only word that comes to mind). For some reason the boys usually don this type of hair. Maybe it is because they wear swim caps less or maybe it is because they don't wash their hair as often or MAYBE it is because it is a total mark of a "true male swimmer" ... cool hair! Anywhoooooooooo, I felt so embarrassed when MR. T caught me snapping his photo. I wonder what a 37 year old mother of 5 looks like when she turns all red? Silly lady with the camera! That Mr. T is headed off to college (University of Michigan) this fall. This would be the same school that Mr. Michael Phelps went to. Those are some big ol'...

Yet another early day ... 6:45 am at the pool 7-8 am warm-ups 8:30 am start of the meet I'll give the shorter version for this day;) On tap for swimming ... 50M Backstroke {k} 100 M Free {k} 50M Free {e} 50M Breaststroke {k} FREE RELAYS Results after prelims ... 50M Back (5th at 41.96  A time, but so close to AA) 100M Free (8th at 1:19.75 ... this is a popular event) 50M Free (40.21 for {e} - a few tenths taken off, but no placement in finals) 50M Breaststroke ( 48.17 which was 4th seating ... she was .13 off her best time) RELAYS ... {k} made top FREE RELAY (she went 2nd) and her team placed 1st (great splits) {e} did her best time EVER in her split of the 50 Free.  Too bad it couldn't have been an individual ... oh well! After the relays we all went home for some R&R.  Today the break was shorter, so {k} quickly headed to my bedroom for an hour nap ... she slept solid.  When she woke up she ate a good lunch, and we went back to the pool.  This time {e} stood home with the...

At pool by 6:45am Warm-ups from 7-8am Parade of athletes shortly after Meet began at 8:30am Preliminaries take place in the morning (several heats for each event). The top 8 swimmers for each event go onto the finals which take place in the late afternoon/evening. {k}'s 1st event was the 50M free . This is a long course meet and the pool is actually 50M(Olympic length) ... so that is one lap. Her seed time 37.63 (which was just shy of an A time). She swam her heat in 34.69 (skipping the A time and going straight to a AA time). We were all psyched. She is now 1 second away from a AAA time ... that is zone cuts. The heats were all circle seating (top swimmers in the middle two lanes of the 8 lane pool). For this event {k} swam next to the top swimmer ... {k} was ranked 6th. At the end of the heats she qualified 5th and was set for the evening finals. {e} swam two individual events and two relays over the course of the two days ... swimming 50M and 100M Free. She did her be...

I think we all could use a big nap from our very long weekend, but instead we are headed back to the pool for the 6 year old's practice. Later ...