The Volk Family: Little Fishy!

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Little Fishy!

On Friday Rowen completed his first session of swim lessons. We had so much fun! To celebrate his last swim lesson of this session Rowen's daddy, Nana, Grammy, and Papa came to watch him. Rowen showed off all his new skills, such as jumping in, kicking while relaxing on the kick board, playing with bubbles and toys in the pool, singing lots of fun songs, and going underwater! Rowen seems to enjoy the water. He becomes very relaxed and mostly likes to watch the other babies and kids in the pool :).

Singing songs with the other babies and mommies.

Just coming up from going under water.

Floating around on his back.

Playing with Sara and little Rylan. We are so lucky to have such fun friends to play with!

6 comments:

Bryon, Sara, Rylan and Ayla said...: We had so much fun with you guys! We can't wait to do it again! It is so fun having boys so close in age. I'm glad we've gotten to do so many fun things together! I'm excited to get together to make slings!; July 27, 2008 at 8:55 PM
Josie S. said...: So adorable! Rowen looks like such a little man in his trunks!; July 28, 2008 at 9:12 AM
Matt Maddy and Clara said...: That looks like it was so much fun! I am very impressed with the underwater dunks- that is great! Rowen is going to be a busy little fishy next summer- he has a head start now. :); July 29, 2008 at 7:56 AM
Jen, Gabe and kiddos said...: How fun! I love his little swim trunks.; August 3, 2008 at 3:00 PM
The Reading Armadillo said...: Hey, I found your blog through Devri's. Rowan is adorable! Congratulations! It's so good to see what you guys are up to these days.

Angie; August 4, 2008 at 11:41 AM
JulieEsqui said...: Hi Liza and Eric! Congratulations on the birth of little Rowen! He's adorable! I saw your mom, Liza, so I've heard about him. Is he doing well? I've thought of you often since he was born. I've had a wonderful almost 20 months home with Addysen and I'm back to work full time this fall. How about you? Take care. Julie; August 11, 2008 at 8:52 PM

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Rowenisms

Chatter bug...

December 2011:
I overheard Eric and Rowen talking one night while Eric was putting Rowen to bed.
Ro: When I get bigger I will already have a kid.
Eric: You will?
Ro: Yeah- baby brother.
Eric: Oh. Well baby brother will grow up too.
Ro: Oh. Well someday he will be 3.
Eric: When he is 3 how old will you be? You will be 7.
Ro: I will be bigger.

Rowen was drying himself off after a shower.
me: You are such a big boy- growing up way too fast for mama. Please stay little forever! (I am teasing him a bit)
Ro: I am growing up mom.
me: pretty soon you will be as big as daddy and someday you will have little kids of your own.
Ro: NO! I don't want kids.
me: why not?
Ro: because I would have to get married. I don't ever want to get married.
me: why not?
Ro: because I want to live here forever!

November 2011:
Rowen gets a few meanings mixed up...
The one that causes the most drama is the meanings of on accident and on purpose
Ro:"It was on purpose mommy!"
Me: "You mean it was an accident?"
Ro: while crying, "No! On purpose!"
Me: "I think you mean it was an accident."

this goes on and on :)

Rowen has been calling Paxton "Paxti". Cute but we are not sure if little brother is going to like it when he gets older :).

Rowen rubbed my tummy a few months after giving birth to Paxton and gasped, "Mommy is having another baby!".

May:
While eating lunch Rowen bit his tongue, something that happens often to Rowen! He yelled out in pain, very dramatically like he always does. Then he said in a very stern, grumpy voice, "When I am big and play basketball I am going to wear one of those mouth things so I don't bite my tongue!"
I called Eric at work to tell him about this incident because it was so funny to me and Eric said that recently while watching a basketball game together Eric had explained that one of the players had a mouth guard in and that it helped the player not bite his tongue.

January:
During dinner one evening with Grammy and Papa Rowen said, "I am going to count my family."
He started by putting all the fingers on one hand up and while pointing to each finger he said, "Mommy, Daddy, Grammy, Papa," and then with such surprise in his voice and face he pointed to his pinky finger and said, " and there is me!".

After daddy had given Ro a hug before his nap Rowen said, "He is my favorite guy in the whole wide world!"

After reading a book about ocean animals with me Rowen said, "Whales are strange creatures! They eat fish!"

December:
"I love you mommy. You are my favorite person."

"I like Daddy the best!" when getting into a bit of trouble with mommy :). Oh my! What are the teenage years going to be like?

November:
Rowen likes to make up new words all the time. He thinks this is hilarious. One of his favorite new words right now is pinetwine. Don't ask me how he came up with that one but it results in fits of giggles from Ro and mommy and daddy every time! In addition to making up words Rowen likes to change the pronunciation of words- he will mumble words or leave out one important sound or add another sound. We have also heard him try to use a slight British accent a time or two- I'm sure this is from watching way too much Thomas The Tank Engine!

Rowen was telling me about his day at Grandpa and Nana's. He was towards the end of his play by play description of the day...
Ro: Then I took a rest and mommy came to pick me up!
What?! (in a very dramatic voice). I confused my mind! It wasn't mommy it was Grammy!