Swimming lessons

For the past 6 weeks Krew has been taking swimming lessons at Hibbard fishies it has been so much fun we have had a blast, the swimming teacher Natalie has been amazing. I'm so glad that we were able to go do these swimming lessons. We went with our neighbors and their kids Maddie Isaac and Zoie. Krew would get so excited every Friday about swimming he would say "simming Mana, Isaac Zoie" He did really well too, I swear he wanted to just go and swim by him self he would always try to jump out of my arms, he had no problem putting his face in the water. The very first day that we went swimming Natalie was teaching them how to blow bubbles into the water and Krew just dove right in and blew bubbles. She turned to Krew and said "wow way to go Krew that's awesome." I didn't realize that that is one of the hardest things to have kids do is blow bubbles in the water. I guess it's the fact that they don't want their faces near the water but blowing bubbles are one of Krew's favorite things to do in the water. Another thing that he learned to do was pull himself across the side of the swimming pool to coax him we would get a toy and put it a little bit out of reach (Krew always chose the Alligator it's his favorite animal he like to say what an alligator says arrght arrht and chomp his teeth together) we used the same method to teach him to pull himself out of the pool, of coarse he needs a little bit of help getting out but he loves to get out and jump back in. Brandon came to watch his last swimming lesson and took a few pictures of us in the pool.

Here is Krew doing one of the exercises putting his cheeks into the water.

Here is Krew doing the Alligator crawl (crawling on his belly) He loved doing this.

There was also a water slide that the kids were able to go down at the end of the lesson of coarse Krew LOVED the slide he would ask over and over if he could go again.

This is another exercise that they would do, trying to float on their belly by them selves.

And here are a few videos of Krew

Here is Krew going under the water

And here is Krew jumping in the water.

Body Parts!!!

So this video was taken about 5 weeks ago when we were trying to get Krew to learn all of his body parts. He has been doing such a good j0b and learns probably 4 words a day now. Just on a side note anytime Diedre or I go to the bathroom he will knock on the door and shout I Floosh, I Floosh, so then we let him into the bathroom and he moves the garbage out of the way so that he can flush the toilet himself and then close the lid... Such a stinkin cute kid, we sure hope that Grey is just like him. Only 4 weeks until Grey comes and I graduate from BYU-I. Crazy things are on the horizon. Enjoy!

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Coffee table

We made this a month ago but I just haven't blogged about it yet. Sorry I'm slow but I thought that I would share my beautiful coffee table that Brandon and I made.

My neighbors and I have been obsessed with this new blog knockoffwood.blogspot.com she gives tutorials on how to do your own woodworking. And I LOVE IT!! I get so excited when I read her blog about new wood projects when we move to Tennessee I would love to do more, I would do more now but since we are moving soon I don't want to have to move it all. Anyway my neighbors made shelves and Brandon and I made a coffee table. We love our coffee table it turned out much better than I imagined ( I was so nervous to make it because I had never made anything with wood before in my life so I didn't have very high expectations of our first project) Thankfully I have an AMAZING husband who was willing to do a lot of work. My neighbors and I went to Home depot together and got the wood and had them cut everything. Basically we walked in handed a guy the list of materials that we needed and how they needed to be cut (that we printed off of the blog) and we literally walked around with him and watched him do everything for us. He was so nice and so willing to help it was great. I still wouldn't be able to tell you where the wood was in the store or anything that's how clueless I was, and still am. Anyway, we assembled everything together that same day and sanded and painted/stained a few days later. It was so much fun. I highly recommend the blog. You can save so much money as well. Pottery barn sells the same type of coffee table for $300 and all the materials and everything only cost us about $40. I am so happy with what we did. Here are some pictures to show the process so you know that we really did in fact make it our selves.

Here is our frame and my neighbors working on their bookshelves in our apartment.

Brandon screwing in the screws He really was amazing in this whole project!

My neighbors finished bookshelf (they made 4 all together ) they are awesome and so easy we can't wait to make our own book shelves.

Our coffee table all put together.

The final project!! I am so pleased with our table I still can't believe that we did it!! Thanks to knockoffwood.blogspot.com. You all should really check it out!!

The Nu Renu!!!

Ever since I can remember I have been using Renu contact solution. All of the other brands have always caused itchiness and irritation (much like a Walmart brand diaper) for me. And also as long as I could remember it has come in the same white plastic non-see through bottle. This was exciting for me because I thrive on mystery!! For this same reason I love CSI, Cracker Jacks, and Spam! Something about me not being able to see inside thrilled me, perhaps there were little Renu "faeries" that flew around inside the bottle to produce the non-itchy formula? Who knows? Well now Renu just came out with there new generation bottle for 2010!! Completely clear and translucent to the fact that it is not a mystical aqueous home for magical faeries!!! However now there will be no guessing how much longer one bottle is going to last, I can now say to Diedre "the Renu is at the 3.4 mL line, time to put it on our shopping list" thus preventing the uncomfortable feeling of having to use spit in your case one night because your "Renu happy wife" used up the last few drops without any warning!! In short my functionality side loves the new bottle, but my mysterious side hates it!!!

Valentines Day

Well today was Valentines Day and it was a whole lot of fun. Diedre first woke Krew and I up (correction: Krew did the waking up) and made us a very romantic crepe and sausage breakfast. It was probably one of the greatest breakfasts that I have ever had. Although Krew kept stuffing bits of the crepes down his diaper... I just figured he was cutting out the middleman!!! Anyway it was a fabulous morning. Since Krew and I had to say thank you for the breakfast I was trying to think of the best way to show her we appreciated her hard work and all I could think of was to flex our muscles for her and that would let her know how much we loved her. That's all women really want right? "Tickets to the Gun Show"!!! Krew is pretty darn cute in this one so we thought we would share. Then I had to go to a bunch of meetings for church while Diedre took care of Krew and began work on our romantic dinner. As far as gifts are concerned I got Diedre this penguin balloon, a single red rose, and a puzzle made from one of our engagement pictures. She got me some stuff for a game that I like to play (which we will keep anonymous since most people that read this will just make fun of me for it). Then once we got home from church Diedre had chicken cordon bleu and baked sweet potatoes for dinner. Anyway I guess I will just take this time to express my love for my beautiful wife. I am so glad that she married me and that she has such a sexy body!! Till the next holiday... Goodbye!!!

Just to clarify

I realized that I wrote in our next sons name Grey. His full name is going to be Barton Graham Sloan, but we have decided to nickname him Grey since it has been a little confusing who we are talking about sometimes when we talk about Barton (since Brandon's brothers name is Barton). Just letting everyone know if they thought it was a little confusing.