We put the air conditioning on today for the first time this year.  I'd been running it in the van for a week or two but the house hadn't been too bad!  Today with the oven on we just couldn't hack it anymore!  Registered all 4 girls for swimming lessons today, to the tune of almost $200.00!  Hoowhee that's a lot of money!  I just hope that they all become lifeguards or something to make use of all this training!  My youngest, who is 5 will have her first session this year.  She already swims like a dolphin so I don't think she'll have much trouble starting.  She loves anything like this that gets her to feel like a "big" girl! 

Our second oldest is on a swim team so she already is making great strides in her swimming.  She's quite excited since the Summer games are being held in a town a half hour away next summer and she stands a good chance to be eligible to compete.  That is one of the nicer things about living in town (a small city, actually), they have so many opportunities available to them.  I grew up in a rural setting in Ontario and we lived too far for my parents to think that it was worth it to get involved in anything!  Also, we had a riding stable and I was expected to work at it from  a young age, never time to do much else anyway.  (Whine, whine!!)   Anyway, I sometimes complain about living in town, but when there are so many things like this available to them, I'm glad that we are able to give them those things!