The Dower Family

The weeks just fly by around here at the moment.  I think having Nick around the house all the time is helping the weeks blur past, with no weekends to mark the end or the beginning.  But in between those blurry days there are some lovely little moments happening. Ol went up a level at swimming.  This was no great surprise, I think I might have even foreshadowed it to you the other week.  But it was still super awesome when it did happen.  And especially as I was the one watching him swim that day.  I just couldn't believe that the tiny little baby I took to those swimming lessons four years ago has now become this boy who swims freestyle stroke.  How did that happen?  The next level sees him adding proper swimming breathing to his arms and his kicking.  It seems terribly tricky to do it all at once but he is getting the hang of it and I can see that in no time he will be swimming whole lengths of the pool. While we are talking about what a big boy he is, we even went up t