Swimming and Valentine's Day

This week and weekend was another busy one! On Friday night, Ashlyn went to another Parent's Night Out. This time we decided to only have her stay for two hours. While Ashlyn was having a great time, Joey and I were able to go out to dinner just the two of us. When we picked Ashlyn up, she was eating pizza and having a great time with the other kids. It was really cute. We all had a great night.

On Saturday, we started our Valentine's day bright and early. We went out to breakfast. After breakfast, we headed to swimming lessons. This was Ashlyn's second swimming lesson. I am not sure how I feel about them. She has a different instructor than they one last time. This woman is very serious about swimming. We don't really play games, we focus on learning how to swim. I think learning how to swim is a very important skill. I just signed up for the lessons as something fun for us to do. She just seems to young to really start doing some of the skills. We will finish her last two lessons, but I don't think we will take them again until this summer. The YMCA we go to is extremely busy on Saturday mornings. It is so busy that it is almost too hectic and crowded. In the summer, we can go during the week and it is not so bad. This week Ashlyn did start jumping of the side of the pool to me. It is the cutest thing. She really does love being in the water. Joey and I want to take an overnight trip to Denver some weekend soon, and swim in the pool. I also want to take her to the aquarium or the children's museum.

Ashlyn had her gymnastics class shortly after swimming. It is a really long morning for her. She really does not get a nap in between the two and is very tired. She is not enjoying her gymnastics classes as well, because she is so tired. I am going to try and call this week and see if we can take her last swimming lessons on Wednesday nights.

Ashlyn did get to open her Valentine's day gifts when we got home. She was wearing an adorable outfit with a shirt that said "I Love Mommy". I wanted to take pictures of her opening her gifts and of her outfit. Of course, my camera died the second I started taking pictures. Ashlyn got an Ariel doll and an Elmo dvd. She was very happy with her gifts!

Below are the pictures from this week. I apologize that they are a little out of order.

Sitting on the side of the pool.

Ashlyn is just like her mom was when she was girl. She loves dolls! We bought her a toy baby bottle to feed her dolls with. We didn't even have to show her what to do, she just knew. Here she is feeding her kitty.

More feeding pictures

Opening her gifts. She loves opening gifts.

She was so excited!