Nolensville Kids Triathlon

Last Saturday Carter did the Nolensville Kids Tri.  It was a crazy busy weekend for him but he still did great (first week of school, Nashville Sounds game Friday night, soccer and baseball practices Saturday morning, and Tennessee Titans game Saturday night).

This race was the third kids tri Carter did this summer.  Each one is slightly different with the length of each section.  This one was a 100 yard swim, 2 mile bike, and 0.7 mile run.

Carter getting ready to jump in the pool ...

I got this picture off the race's facebook page ...

Carter looked so good swimming!  He's finally found an efficient stroke.  But it's been a month since swim team so 4 lengths of the pool is long after not practicing for awhile!

This year the kids had to run out of the pool through the zero-entry side instead of pulling themselves out on the side of the pool.  Carter is in the background of this picture running out ...

I just caught Carter coming out of the transition to start the bike portion.

And coming back from the bike ...

And Carter finishing the race ...

Carter finished in 7th place (out of 29) for 8 year old boys.  Here are his times:

Swim: 3:02 (Rank - 12th)

Transition #1: 1:01 (Rank - 4th)
Bike: 12:55 (Rank - 11th)
Transition #2: 0:35 (Rank - 9th)
Run: 5:12 (Rank - 3rd)

Total: 22:46

There were 350 kids that did this triathlon and it was the biggest of the three Carter did this summer.  He did awesome!

Before the tri started, there were six kids with disabilities that started a modified version of the race.  One of those kids was Cohen (the boy Carter was paired with for the Tri My Best Triathlon).  Cohen did absolutely amazing!  He did the entire race too!!!  And was at the finish line to cheer on Carter.  We love Cohen and his family and hope to stay in touch with them!

After the race, Carter got two medals.  One was for participating in this race and the other was for participating in all three kids triathlons this summer.  The second medal was really cool with race logo charms from each race he did.

There were 40 kids total that did all three races this summer.

Carter is already looking forward to participating in these triathlons next year!!!

Gymnastics

Gray started Mommy and Me gymnastics on Monday at Let It Shine.  I did gymnastics for the older two at Harpeth Gymnastics but Suzy and I decided to try this gym for the little ones.

The first class was okay.  The instructor wasn't very friendly with the kids and also didn't instruct us on what to do with the kids.  It was more free play.  Very expensive free play.  We are committed for the month (and would lose our $50 registration fee if we moved gyms) but hopefully it'll improve.

Gray had fun though.  We did have a five minute organized circle time midway through that he didn't want to sit through since he'd been introduced to all the fun trampolines and foam pit.  I didn't like having the misbehaved kid running away!  He wasn't the only one though :)

Look at little man getting those feet up on his own :)

Hopefully next Monday will be a little better!

Sounds Game

Tonight we took the family to a Nashville Sounds game.  Brian's company was having their annual summer outing there so got free admission and dinner.

Unfortunately the game started off really slow and since we were sitting in the outfield, it was difficult for the kids to pay attention to the game.

They spent most of the game playing in the berm seating section with their friends that happen to also have parents that work at Brian's company.  At least they were having fun!!!

Gray enjoyed eating the popcorn he actually got to himself since his bros were playing :)

We left in the bottom of the 7th inning when the Sounds his a grand slam to make the score 10-0 (which ended up being the final score).

Williamson County Fair

We took the boys to the Williamson County Fair on Wednesday night.  Even though it was the night before Rylan's first day of kindergarten, Wednesday was the only night we didn't have something going on.  Luckily Rylan didn't seem any more tired than normal!

We arrived at the fair around 6:30 pm and headed to the indoor arena.  The boys checked out the tractors as we waited for one of the shows to start.

We watched Lady Houdini escape a straight jacket and do the water torture cell trick.

Even though they are getting a little old for it, the big boys were super excited for the Little 1's Farming area.  They get to do thinks like brush a fake sheep, plant corn in a fake bed, milk a fake cow, etc.  After collecting items from each station, they "sell" their goods for a treat (chocolate milk, cookies, or an ice cream sandwich).

Next we visited the children's barnyard.

The mama pig had babies 5 days earlier!  They were super cute!

This baby llama was the cutest animal ever with it's HUGE eyes!!!

We wandered around the midway for awhile while the kids decided if they wanted to spend money on games or rides.  They decided on games.  This basketball game was $10 each!!!  For 5 shots - yikes!  Luckily Carter made all 5 and Rylan made 4 which was enough for them to pick out a prize from the same section.

Next they tried to win a goldfish.  For $5, they got 35 balls and tried to get them into mini fish bowls.

Carter got one in!

The lady gave us two fish!  We still have one guppy alive that Carter got to take home from school last spring.  So we added these guys to our tank when we got home.  Unfortunately they weren't as healthy as our fish from last year's fair (some of those made it several months).  One died on Thursday and the other one died today.  So we are back to one lonely guppy :(

Before heading out, we watched the BMX Pros Trick Team.

We left around 9:30 pm since the next day was Rylan's first day of school.  It was a fun evening and I know the boys are already looking forward to next year!

First Day of Kindergarten

Rylan had his first day of kindergarten at Clovercroft today!!!

Today was a half day for the kindergarten boys.  The girls went yesterday and all the kindergarteners go tomorrow.  On Monday, they will start going full time like the older grades.

There are two new teachers in kindergarten this year (in addition to four returning teachers) and Rylan got one of the new teachers.  Ms. Bledsoe graduated from UT-Martin in 2015 and taught third grade for one year in another county.  She is very young but hopefully very enthusiastic!

Rylan doesn't know any of the kids in his class but there is one boy that lives in our neighborhood. Rylan and Beckham have never played together before but have seen each other at walker pickup before.  They sit at the same table in class and Rylan said they played together a lot today.

Rylan had a great day!  He was super excited about everything and can't wait to go back tomorrow.  He was extremely proud that as a reward for being the best colorer (he stayed in the lines the best), he got to be the line leader today :)

Brothers

Rockets

Okay, I have to share two more photos now ...

We had one especially rainy day on our trip to Florida so we went to the National Naval Aviation Museum at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola.

Three Clowns

I'm slowly going through my photos from our beach trip and hope to post them soon.  This one was too cute though to wait to share!