It was Labor WEEKEND around our house!

I'm sore this morning. After a weekend where many of you were enjoying the last days of summer, I'm wondering where our weekend went! I'm truly thinking we missed a day off.

It was a weekend full of labor around our house. Ryan fixed a plumbing/sheet rock issue downstairs and we prepped both bathrooms to be painted. I spent part of Saturday and the better part of Sunday painting and putting things back together. We just need to buy some new hardware fo the upstairs bathroom, buy some new accessories (Riley wasn't too fond of the rubber ducky stuff) and shower curtain for downstairs and work on a special photo session for some artwork. That's a project I've wanted to do for a long time now so it's good to be done.

We also finally moved all of Riley's clothes to his new room. He moved back downstairs about two months ago but I wasn't sure the move would stick so I'd been putting off moving all of his stuff.

The two biggest developments over the weekend though?

Paige ... Friday night Paige decided she wanted to sleep in the twin bed in her room (the one Riley used to sleep on). I thought it would just be a one night thing ... she's taken naps over there before here and there. Well, she fell asleep there on Friday night, took a nap there on Saturday and fell asleep there again on Saturday night. So Sunday afternoon I reluctantly asked her if she wanted her crib to go bye-bye. She said yes and pointed to her big girl bed and said, "nigh, nigh". I just about bawled! Seriously, she's not old enough for this is she?

She's all proud of herself and loves her bed. Yesterday morning she was laying in there just hanging out. And so far she will still call to us in the morning when she wakes up. I don't think she can get the handle of her door open yet so she just lays there until we come in.

Riley's big news .... the kid is basically swimming. EEK!!! We headed over to Dodge Center yesterday afternoon for one last day at the pool. It's such a great pool ... they have a water slide and zero depth entry end.

Riley's favorite thing to do in the pool is stand on the side and jump in to the waiting arms of mom or dad. As the summer went on he was wanting us to go further and further out into the pool to see if he could make it to us. Well, yesterday daddy was letting him struggle a little bit after he'd jump in (we were in deeper water) to see what he'd do ... and while he couldn't get his head fully above water, he could tread water enough to keep his eyes above ... and when he did go under he didn't really freak out at all.

So after Paige started shaking because she was cold, dad went with her to wrap up in a towel and I gave Riley 5 minutes to swim before we were going to go. We headed to the part he could at least touch the bottom at and I'm watching him as he's going under the water and kicking like he's trying to swim. The next time he came up for air, I showed him how to move his arms underwater to get him moving forward ... and the little fart did it. I'm not going to throw him in the deep end anytime soon .... but he managed to "swim" forward abot 8 feet underwater without touching the bottom. Seriously the kid is a fish!

So that's the update from our house. Riley starts his second year of pre-school on the 17th. We got a letter from his teacher and she sounds like she's fresh out of college ... hopefully these 4 and 5 year old's don't scare her off too much! :)