Swim Party

Captain Phobia is afraid of water and has refused to have any part of swimming - or even taking a shower. However, we discovered his weirdness is mostly about getting water in his eyes.  After purchasing him some goggles, that he wore around all week, he was all excited to go to his friend's Star Wars themed swim party today!  

Chillaxin' in his goggles

And Wm had a BLAST at the swim party!!!  He did NOT want to leave and we had to drag him out.  Luckily I learned from The Moms that there are a couple really nice pools around that we can join this summer.  Wm was THRILLED about that plan is so excited!!!  I told him he has to learn how to swim before we can go and he was all happy about that too!  Thank god.  

Wm coloring in his light saber for pin-the-light-saber-on-Darth Vader

Wm is the tiny dot up at the front pinning on his light saber!

One of the moms at the party said Wm is "the perfect mix" of Steve and I.  She said neither one of us could deny we were related.  I thought that was super nice.  I do wish Wm had more of Steve's personality though!  He's all Evil Cory and not enough Chill Steve.  

One thing Wm DEFINITELY got from Steve is his math skills!!! I am not even kidding (I wish I was...), but Wm has already surpassed some of my math skills. We were sitting at lunch and Wm asked for math challenges.  So Steve was throwing out problems like, "what is 47 plus 52" or "what is 32 plus 61?" And Wm was answering them WELL before I had figured them out in my head!  I was like, "wait...carry the one...HOLD ON!" and Wm would be like, "93!" in a millisecond.  Steve thinks it is HILARIOUS.  I was really impressed Wm has figured out a fast way to do it on his own.  When  I asked how he can do it so fast and he goes, "well, 32 plus 61 - 30 plus 60 is 90, then 2 plus 1 is 3...so together that is 93.  I'm surprised you didn't know how to do that, Mommy." [smirk]