Photography Practice

Erik, Melinda and Camden asked me to do some family pictures for them and of course I said yes!

I love being able to practice all of the things I have learned in my photography classes.

Plus, I am now learning about Photoshop actions.

Anyway, I think this shoot turned out cute, so I am sharing. :)

Swim Lesson Video

This is just a short video of Jake kicking around at swim lessons with Daddy.

Swim Lessons 2011

At the end of last summer, Jake was jumping into pools to whoever would catch him, so naturally we thought that this year would be THE year to get Jake into swim lessons and that he would LOVE it. Um, no. It seemed to just be "in the water" or something. His teacher was super nice, but all of the kids just had a rough go of it in the beginning. As the water temperature warmed up Jake became a little more brave but never fully performed all the tasks. He wouldn't stick his head in the water to grab a fish and on his bad days wouldn't jump from the side to Daddy. He did, however, kick around on the kick board, climb out of the water unassisted, monkey climb around the pool edge and jump to Daddy on his good days! We can't wait to get him back into the water next year and see if we can get him to be a little swimmer yet.

A Tiny Tots Video

This was one of the creative ways that Jake's Tiny Tot's instructor kept the kids active (and in the shade) for the basketball portion if Tiny Tots. Jake loved this as long as both Cam and I took up our posts to make sure he went back up to do it again instead of heading off to a different slide. Silly Kid!

A Few Words About Tiny Tots

We finished up our six weeks of Tiny Tots. Jake was a little hard to handle during each session, but I think it was a good soft break-in for organized activities.

He loved running up and down the field playing red light, green light even though he almost never stopped for red light.

Soccer was probably his favorite sport, but we did discover that Jake can throw quite well.

By the time basketball came around it was getting pretty hot even in the early mornings and it was pretty difficult to keep Jake involved... the little stinker! But overall, I think it was a worthwhile experience. And, we are already planning on doing the program again in the Fall!