Car Trouble

We had ourselves a pretty big weekend. My mother-in-law turned 60, so I got to go hang out at my wife's sister's house. It wasn't so bad after a few Longboards. They set up the old Super8 projector and were watching old home movies, so that was awesome for me. The kids got to swim for a while in the doughboy in their backyard and play the Wii and watch Toy Story 2 and get ice cream cake, so it was a great party for them.

They have now completed one week of swim lessons and are going to be starting their second and final week of this session today. Big T may just be able to swim by Thursday, according to the teacher. Little E, probably not. But then, she's only 4 and this is her first time trying, so maybe a couple more lessons and she'll be okay. Just have to wait and see. It's frustrating for me, because I want them to be better faster, and I'll watch them in there with the teacher, and they're fooling around and being goofy, and I want them serious and focused because they're only getting 25 minutes sessions 8 times. Less than four hours of lessons to make them swim and they're not progressing at the pace that I'd like them to. I will say that Big T is much farther along than I thought he would be as he's dunking his head for a long time and really enjoys those diving rings that sit on the bottom of the pool. He loves trying to pick those up.

In other exciting news, Big T Finally lost his first tooth!! It took over seven years, but it finally happened. He was crazy excited about it and couldn't wait for the tooth fairy to come, and come the tooth fairy did. He was thrilled to find his tooth replaced by money this morning and the first thing he told me this morning was about this very magical and long awaited transformation.

Little E also picked her first peapod off her plant yesterday morning. She was also very excited about this development and can't wait for more of them to be ready to pick and eat.

In other exciting, but not nearly as welcome news, my vans transmission started to crap out on us as we were leaving for the 'local' Bass Pro Shops in Manteca. It would slam so hard from first to second that it felt like we were being rear ended. Checked everything out later that night, (we went to Bass Pro still, just took the wife's car instead of my van)  and everything was working fine. Called my mechanic this morning and discovered that this kind of thing can happen and when you turn off the vehicle and then turn it back on, it resets the computer, which is what could be causing the problem due to not reading the engine correctly and shifting when it should. So he said it was cool to drive and if it started happening again, I can simply pull over, turn the van off, turn it back on and it should work again. Of course, I'll still have to take it in to get it checked out. Which is super because I just got the A/C fixed on Friday. So back it goes!! But at least it's now and not while we're gone on vacation.

And since you're wondering, Bass Pro was fun. The kids got to make a picture frame, hang out in the boats, got new fishing poles, the shooting gallery was free. All in all, an interesting Sunday.