At first, I wasn't sure I would make it though today. I got home from my FAMILIA class, finished packing things up, and got into bed around 11PM. Well, by 12:30, I was trying not to freak out, because I was wide awake, and couldn't figure out why. David had the hindsight to go see what the side effects of all my meds were. Turns out the new antibiotic I'm on "may cause trouble sleeping." Oh great! I took 1/3 of a sleeping pill and finally fell asleep around 1:30AM.
The alarm went off at 6:00AM, and I was so jittery, like someone might be on a caffeine kick...I kept dropping things, and it was awful. It took me forever to get ready, but we finally got out the door and got to the pool...late. I just couldn't make my limbs move fast enough. The shaky feeling lasted until around 10:00AM, thankfully after that, I felt much better.
The kids got into the water, warmed up, and then joined me in the age group tents while the other team warmed up. I got one pic after warm ups...don't they look all bright-eyed and bushy tailed?
Then it was just waiting for their events to come up and swim in their individual heats. I got some great pics of Joshua and Rebecca, and tried out the "sports" setting on my camera...it worked beautifully.
Here's Rebecca waiting for her first event, the freestyle. She was SO excited!
GO REBECCA! 
Later on, our girl was getting tired, but she rallied for her last event ;-). 
Joshua did fairly well, and I was so proud of him, but next week we'll put him on his ADHD medication. He had a hard time concentrating, especially during the 100 meter individual medley. I saw one of the coaches repeating the order of the strokes several times...just to make sure he got it. He did do all the strokes in the correct order...whew!
GO JOSHUA!
By the end of the swim meet, Joshua was cranky, and started to come unglued, which didn't surprise me. It was too much for him...he needed some down time...preferable in front of the TV or computer. But we had to go straight to Rebecca's soccer game after swimming...and my poor boy just lost it. He didn't calm down until the soccer game was almost over. Once we got home, I told him to just go chill in front of the computer, and he was fine afterwards.
Rebecca was a trooper, I was proud of her too. She was nervous about doing the backstroke (since she's really learned only the freestyle), but I told her to just go for it. Well, she made it down the entire length of the pool without turning around or touching the ropes! Her coach came over and told me,
"You know, she's really petite, but so buoyant, she floats like a cork!'
(I guess that's a good thing, right?)
Honestly, neither one of our kids had great times...but they did their best, and that's all we wanted. For their first time on a swim team, they jumped right in, and weren't intimidated by all the other kids...'cause I sure would have been!
We had pizza for dinner, since everyone was pooped. Both Joshua and Rebecca ate like crazy, even though they'd had snacks all day long. Good thing David made that run to SAM's Friday night :-).
Only 5 more Saturdays of swimming to go, (6 if they make it to divisionals)!
GO CROCS!
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