Owen's introduction to swim classes went...poorly. He spent the majority of the first six weeks screaming constantly and clutching to me like a koala with separation anxiety issues.

Thankfully he got past that as time went on.

If you take a closer look at that photo and check out the background, you'll see a kid just under the "NO DIVING" sign flinging himself into the pool with wild abandon. That would be Max, who was wearing jeans for "clothesline day". The idea is that the kids learn how to swim to the side of the pool if they fall in with all their clothes on.

He did pretty well, as usual.

Plus he got a chance to try it again without the jeans.

They've both been making great strides in their swimming ability, and we're proud of all the hard work they've been doing to make their mom a bit less nervous about having them around water.

The rest of the week passed per usual, but we had some plans for the weekend to make up for the lack of interesting content.

Owen makes his own plans.

I believe he's singing in this one.

As for this…well…

Clearly they enjoy their play room, but we had bigger plans for the rest of the day. We chowed down on some lunch and piled into the car so we could spend some time in Forney for a birthday party.

Hooray for the birthday girl!

The boys only play together nicely when it's someone else's toy.

See? Calm, collected, cool. I will never understand it.

Now you know why we don't get very many family photos to post.

Much of the party was just spent playing around, with momentary breaks for cake and present opening.

And grilling cupcakes. There has to be a way to make this a real thing.

Have we mentioned lately that Owen loves hoodies?

The weather was just barely nice enough for us to go outside for a bit.

Which is good, because the boys love making us nervous on slides.

Not pictured: Owen almost doing a front flip down the slide due to poor foot placement.

Max decided to try out the monkey bars. Didn't get far on his first attempt.

Of course, monkey see monkey do.

We spent a bit more time hanging out, then headed out for a nice dinner with Mimi and Pappaw. The boys were a bit confused at all the yelling (we wound up in an establishment with some sport fan presence) but they seemed to enjoy it anyway.

The weekend lasted an extra day for us, but we'll have to save that for our next update. If you want to check out the rest of the photos, you can click here. All that's left is a quick video of the boys at swim class and we'll call it a week.

Swimming

Just another day at the pool.

See you next week!