Weekend Adventures

It has been a busy weekend! On Friday night Steve went over to an older lady's house and helped her figure out her DVD player because he is a saint. Then we had to wake up early on Saturday morning since our awesome table was delivered at 7:30am!

Awesome table! With 2 additional chairs not in shot.

Waiting to be covered in pizza 

After the delivery of the table, Wm had his first soccer game! He goes, "I actually really liked it!"

Then we had to get home and get ready for company to come over and break in the new table! Included in the mix was one of Wm's friends who stayed overnight. They were up giggling WAY too late - and had to get the upstairs yell down ("TIME FOR SLEEP, BOYS!") They were up and giggling again bright and early. 

After Wm's friend left, we broke the news to him that we had signed him up for semi-private swim lessons for the water-phobic at OSU. There were A LOT of tears. He was very mad at us and moped silently in his room all morning. The mix of exhaustion with the horrors of swim lessons was too much for him.  I finally got him calmed down by figuring out what he was worried about and talking through everything (that the class would be filled with toddlers, the water would be too deep, the instructors would force him to do things, etc). He still wasn't pleased, but off we went...

Grumpily pacing before the lesson

In the water!

Away from the side!

And then...it turned out Wm did GREAT!!! I told him if he had a miserable time, he'd never have to go back (it was the only way I could stop the water works). And I just had to hope that it went OK. When it was over, Wm goes, "I am coming back next week!!" He used the kick board and kicked his way across the pool, practiced pushing off from the wall, jumped into the water from the edge, played a game, and blew bubbles. The only things he wasn't 100% comfortable doing were putting his whole head under and going into the 5 foot deep area. There were 5 kids and 2 instructors, so he got lots of individual attention. I was so proud of how well he did!!!

Then, Steve and I went for our anniversary dinner tonight while Wm went to Mimi and Guy's! We went to La Tavola. YUM!! SUPER good!!! Steve and I are stuffed and happy. We will definitely be going back.

A pretty great weekend! But, now I'm also pretty tired. :)