July 14

Busy day for the boys and I. Tanner started his second session of golf camp. He is enrolled with several little boys that are around his age. Dane mentioned that he had 13 kids under the age of 8... yikes. Tanner is in company of two little boys that are almost the exact same age as he ( they were born within weeks from each other), these two other boys were in playgroups with Tanner when they were all babies. The moms and I have kept in touch with each other through the last 5+ years, but life gets us busy and we haven't been able to get the boys together as often as when they were just little toddlers. Anyhow... it is so neat to have them together again and to remember that we used to think about the day that they would do sports together.. that day is here.... wow.. how time flies!
Cole had his first swim lesson, he cried through a lot of it. And Tanner did okay but was pretty ornery about getting out as they had asked. Between Cole's anger about getting his swimming experience and Tanner getting into trouble for jumping into the pool twice without permission, the rest of my evening went on forever as Tanner had lost a lot of privileges for such defiant behavior and I was hearing his discontent the whole evening. I had to keep reminding myself that if I give in to his demands, his behavior will not get any better. I had to stand my ground!