Swimmingly Saturday

I was SO super duper overly excited to go swimming with the kids yesterday!! Because of the timing of Sophia's surgeries last summer, we have not gone swimming in two years! We skipped a whole summer of swimming last year, so we have lots of catching up to do.

Do you know that look? The clapping? The jumping up and down? It's the mom can we skip this picnic lunch thing and go swimming now look.

As I expected, Amelia jumped right into the deep end and Sophia was a little more timid, but after a while they were both having a blast.

Isn't she the absolute cutest?! This is my friend's daughter - aaah she's so sweet!!

Afterwards we got ice cream at Shakey's. Yum! If you live in Arkansas, order a Yellow Submarine from there - it's the best! Banana and pineapple in yanilla custard. Also, if you take your dog, they'll make a little doggy bowl by smearing a little vanilla custard in a bowl - Shadow, rest her sweet little soul, used to love trips to Shakey's in Fayetteville when we were in college. The only reason I broke my no-ice-cream-in-the-car rule, is that I need to wash their car seat covers anyway. Oh and because I really wanted some Shakey's. (BTW these pics were taken in my driveway, not while I was driving ha!)

Oh and check out Lynnette's photo challenge... I'm way behind on this, but we were supposed to post a picture of someone in our house making such a goofy face that we weren't going to post it. Here's Sophia's post-ice cream goofiness

I made Porter a new bed last night... I feel bad, he outgrew his last one months ago. He liked the bed; he did not like the photo session. You can't tell in the pictures, but the fabric is a really lovely fine-wale corduroy in burnt orange - it was originally $17 a yard, and I got it on sale - a yard and a half for $4!