Koby's First Birthday.......

Koby turned 1 on June 7th, and of course he had to have a ball cake. It doesn't look the best, but it tasted good and he had fun with it!!
After 1 year, Koby has 6 teeth, 4 on top and 2 on bottom, can walk/walk-run, says: mom, dad, ball, and ugh,ugh,ugh!(for anything he wants). He is always making noise, this is just want we can interpret now! He loves balls of any sport. He got a basketball hoop for his birthday and he can play with that for a long time. He puts anything from basketballs to balloons through the hoop! He loves the water, and for any animal - he makes the puppy sound. He is an awesome sleeper- he takes great naps and sleeps through the night! He almost always has a smile on his face and is a very happy baby. He loves to be outside. He is very independent already and thinks he can do anything the big kids are doing. He loves watermelon, pasta, blueberries, blackberries, carrots, bread, peas, broccoli, corn, sweet potatoes, bananas, yogurt, chicken and anything sweet! He really does NOT like getting his diaper changed (this usually turns into a wrestling match). He gives high fives and knucks. He always has kisses, however, sometimes he offers them but if you are not fast enough he changes his mind =) But when he gives you kisses they usually come in threes; mouth, and both cheeks. He is trying to figure out the stairs though we have not mastered them yet. He is a huge help in the kitchen, he watches the food in the oven to make sure it doesn't burn, and he pulls out every pan in the cupboard just in case we need them all!

Summer Swim League

I am trying to get caught, but decided to start from now and then fill in what I am behind on.

So, Bryn has been on a year round swim team called Swim Atlanta. It has been a great program and we have loved her coach. Back before school was out, her coach asked her if she would like to swim for her on her summer team. We didn't know anything about these summer leagues, but it is a big deal around here. Because most of the communities and sub-divisions have swimming pools, they form teams mostly made up of kids that live in that sub-division. Coach Debbie coach for the team Stonebrier. It is actually very close to our house. The way it worked was they had practice everyday and then a swim meet every Thursday. The last week of June they actually had a meet on Tuesday and Thursday with made 5 swim meets. Then they had finals which were divided up into divisions from all over the Atlanta area. Our division swam in the second of four sessions. They were held at Georgia Tech in the Olympic swim pool! We took second for our division and 7th in all the divisions for finals. During the season Bryn swam anywhere from 4 to 6 events and she always swam 2 relays. She did the freestyle relay and a medley relay. In the individual events she swam back stroke, freestyle, breast stroke, and Individual medley. Some nights she was 50 yards and some nights 25 yards. As a team Stonebrier lost their first meet and won everyone after that. As for Bryn she won lots of first place ribbons as well as a few second place and third place ribbons. It was very exciting and a great experience.
After we swam in the finals, we had to wait from the last two divisions to swim the next day and all the scores to be recorded to see if Bryn would be swimming in the championship meet. In order to swim she had to have placed in the top 10 for relays in her age group and the top 30 in individual events in her age group. When the scores came in, she was so excited- she made it to the championship in both relays and both individual events! She was swimming against 300+ 7-8 year old girls!

WAY TO GO BRYN!!!


The freestyle relay team: Bryn, Sarah, Catherine, Carol.

Koby watching the meet. Everyone would comment all season about how good of a baby he was. They would all get babysitters for any of kids not swimming!