Kenya's swim lessons.

For the last 2 weeks Kenya was doing swim lessons.  It was a great experience.  She got to for 9 days and her good friend Hannah was able to join her class.  Kenya had a blast.  It was something that she got to do all by herself.  Mommy and Jasmin just sat on the side of the pool and watched.
From the very first day she did great!  She liked the water but would sometime get a little nervous.  The girls who were her teacher did an awesome job at warming the kids up to the water and they stated in teaching on the first day.

Kenya on her first day of swim lessons. 

Blowing bubbles with her class.  The first day.

This was right after her first lesson.  Look how happy and proud she was!

Kenya and Hannah after class.  The water was so warm that they were often cold when they got out and huddled in towels.

Kaylee and Jasmin playing while their sisters swam.

So cute!  She is growing up so fast!

 

In this video her class went out for a ride as a train. Yes at the very end that is her yelling " Chugga chugga choo choo!"

This is the last day of class and the girls were getting ready to go down the slide.

Kenya hanging on the side of the pool by herself.

Swimming by herself on the last day of class.  Of course with her life jacket on.

SISTERS!!  Love it!  Kenya and Jasmin walking to the car on the last day of swim lessons. 

 Kenya went of the diving board 2 times on the last day of class.  The second time she did it all by herself.  Way to go Kenya!

By the end of the lessons Kenya could hold her breath under water for 7 seconds (that is what they counted I think she could do more if she tried) and was floating by herself on her back and stomach for a short time.  Really all by herself with no floatation devices.  No actually swimming yet, but she is well on her way.  I signed her up for lessons again at the end of July for level 2. 
I am so proud of Kenya and the way she behaved in class!  She did a great job listening and get along with others!!

Worse than actually given birth to my girls!

This past weekend I joined a club that I hoped I never would have to and I did not join it by choice.  On Thursday night I stated having a miscarriage.  I always wondered if this day would come because of the high % of pregnancies that result in miscarriage.  This is something I wish to never do again and I feel sorrow for women who has to go though a miscarriage.  It just is not fun!
No, I did not know I was pregnant and so it was all very surprising. 
No, we were not preventing from having another baby at the time.
I do not know how far along I was and really don't have a good guess.  By talking to other people and reading a lot about it on the internet I was probably somewhere between 7-12 weeks along.  And I am leaning a lot closer to being 12 weeks along.
I wrote out all the details in gore and all if you want to read it feel free, it is just on a different blog that is not our main stream family blog.  It is very personal and not for a weak stomach.  See it here.
This was physically way more than I ever expected!  Honestly it was worse than I ever felt with either of my girls and now I have no baby to show for it either.  Really it was sheer inconvenience.   I had so many things to get ready and do and we had plans for this weekend as a family.  It really slowed my life down as I had to stay home and couldn't/shouldn't really go out.  My body needs rest which is really hard for me to do. 
Emotionally I have been doing just fine.  I know it was a blessing that I did not know about that baby because I am sure that everyone in our family would have been excited about it.  Kenya has been talking about her bother for a few months now.  We are all doing well and we didn't really explain any of it to Kenya.  I guess I just didn't know how. 
I guess it has kind of got me excited about having another baby someday though. 

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Baby Communication

Jasmin is starting to learn new words everyday.  Her two new words today were bubbles and down. 
Here is a list of the word Jasmin uses and some of them she even puts together.
Hi                                    more
Kitty                                animal sounds: neigh, baa, moo. meow, woof
Kenya                             banana
Dada                               bird
Momma                          bubbles
Bear (she said for the first time yesterday)
This (our cats name)      dog
uh-oh                              down
cheese (when taking pictures)
down                            night night
numnum (wanting to nurse)

Her signing is coming along as well these are signs she uses
more
eat
drink
all done
thank you
up
please

She is also to the point where she will shake her head "no" if we guess the wrong thing.  It is nice to finally get her to respond to what we are asking her.
Just the other day she came up to me and signed "please".  I then asked her "Please what?"  and she began to dance around.  I took that as she was wanting me to turn music on to dance.  I did and she danced and danced and giggled and giggled.  That same day she brought me her cup and handed it to me and signed please.    You got it I went and got her a drink and she was thrilled.  It appears she has discovered how nice it is to communicate and get her point a crossed.  I am loving it too!  It is bitter sweet though because I now have to admit that before she is 11 months old she is no longer a baby.