Nicolas's Swim Meets

Smile!!!

Swimming Breaststroke.

Swimming Freestyle.

Ribbons from 2/18 meet.

Hi everyone! It's been a little crazy here this month. Nicolas had double ear infections

on the night of his 2/13 swim meet. We just didn't know it until he spiked a fever

Saturday afternoon. SURPRISE!!!!

With that and birthday parties and Vince being on "call" for 5 days, we're ready to bid

February goodbye.

He did pretty good for being so sick. Here are his times.

- Butterfly, 25 yards. 34 seconds. 2nd place!

- Freestyle, 25 yards. 25 seconds. 2nd place!

- The IM, 100 yards. 2.40. Incredible being sick, 2nd place!!

- The IM is 25 yards doing the Butterfly,

- 25 yards doing the Backstroke,

- 25 yards doing the breaststroke, and

- 25 yards doing the Freestyle.

He has been training real hard on his IM. It shows!

He also did 2 Relays w/ 3 other team mates but, came in last on both.

The other meet was this past Thursday. We had him only swim 2 events because of his ear infections.

- Butterfly, 25 yards. 43 seconds. 4th place.

- Freestyle, 25 yards. 23 seconds. 2nd place!

He beat his own record for the Freestyle by 2 seconds!! We are so excited. We are still " giddy" over this. He has one more "Home meet" in a couple of weeks then we go to Conferences. His coaches has taken a real liking to him. So much, that they are personally working with him.

Alot of these kids don't really take this seriously, but he does. He is really working his butt off.

The coaches are real impressed with that and so are we. We really hope he sticks with this. It has been so much fun watching him grow into this strong, confident,determined and fun-loving little man. We are so proud of him. We can't say it enough. We have one more birthday party to go to and then we should be done with

birthdays for awhile. On Valentines day, Nico gave me 2 beautiful cards and chocolate. He

going to make a wonderful husband someday. Ha! Ha! Vince made a beautiful disc of us

through the years and ending with.. " I love you and I want to spend the rest of life with you!"

Other things too, but I keep that just for us. We gave Nico a book that we could record us

reading the book to him. It's called " All the ways we love you." So that was nice. The rest

of the day was spent watching T.V. and playing games.

We hope all of you had a great Valentines as well.