swimming...prom dresses....blah blah blah

feeling very blah today. colleen has a friend over so i can't do what i want to do. just lay around and watch movies and eat. maybe that's a good thing.

just realized that i forgot to blog about cliff (aka moe) making the middle school swim team. he came home one day from school asking if he could try out for the swim team. i felt sure he had heard the announcement wrong, who know they had a middle school swim team. so we show up at the tryouts a little late because we couldn't find the right gym at central, cliff jumps in the water swims one lap while they time him and he makes the team. the whole thing took about 5 seconds but he was walking on cloud nine. all he could talk about was swimming. i was in tears while he was swimming because i wanted him to make it so bad and to be honest he looked so huge compared to the other kids. a little back ground. cliff has always wanted to do sports but his mom has always moved them so much or missed the deadlines to sign him up. so this was the first time he wanted to do something, got the chance to tryout, and actually made it. we are so proud of him. now we get to add swim meets to our schedule. woo hoo!!!

the girls and i went prom dress shopping about 2 weeks ago. i had planned to spend the whole day with the girls shopping and laughing and trying on dresses and just having fun. well so much for my plans. mexa (aka freddie) was totally in the moment. trying on every dress i pulled off the rack. just totally enjoying the fact that shes a girl and wanting to feel and look like a princess. now colleen on the other hand was sullen and pouty and not in any mood for dress shopping. talk about a mood killer. i'm afraid she has entered the stage where i'm gonna have to work really hard to enjoy her. don't get me wrong i love her like crazy, but there are days i really don't like her very much. my friend monique has warned me this day was coming but i just didn't expect it so soon. luckily i decided we needed to go to koronas. the sales lady took one look at pouty colleen and determined in her heart she was gonna find her the perfect dress. she grabbed a dress off the rack and pushed her into a dressing room to change. colleen didn't stand a chance. when she came out the sales lady started pinning her and made her walk around the store in this dress that she hated. it didn't take colleen long to find more dresses to try on and within the hour found the perfect pink princess prom dress. she walked in pouty and walked out happy. thank you God for pushy sales ladies.