Almost there....

I'm almost there...  I'm almost finally caught up.  If you haven't already guessed, Jill is a bird lover.  You can imagine her excitement when she discovered that pigeons can get into our chicken coop, but they can't get out.  She took on the responsibility of helping them out everyday, but before setting it free she liked to bring them in to show us all just how "beautiful" the are.  I guess if you can get past the red eyes they are pretty birds.

Switching gears, Miki finished up her summer with one more level in swimming lessons.  For some reason she is really scared to go down the slides.  She told me to make sure I brought my camera on her last day of lessons, because she was going to go down a slide.  It took some courage building.  Here she is looking down into the pool, a distance that seems far when you're at the top of the slide.

Here she sits contemplating, still courage building...

...here she goes!

She made it all the way down to the safety of her swimming teacher.

Yay for another summer of swimming lessons!  She learned so much this year.  I'm so proud of all three girls.  They've all advanced in their swimming this year, and over come some of their fears when it comes to water.