Conclusion "Brave" Week

Well, today marks the end of "BRAVE" week! Jesstine survived and I think she was in pretty good spirits! She ended the week much happier than last week. We are so proud! She even marked two more marks off on her sheet for swim lessons. That means that if she learns to float on her back better, she will move up to the next level! So proud of her! Here are a few pictures:

Floating on her back with Miss Tyler, her swim instructor (Tyler was the name of her previous instructor...only it was a guy!).

She is doing it without holding on folks!!!

With very little help, she managed to make it to the other end! Miss Tyler was SO good at praising her for a job well done!

I didn't get pictures of the raft the last time she took swim lessons. She kept falling off! She is so darn little!

And of course the finale of swim lessons is always a trip down the slide.

She was a little intimated. I am not sure why since she spent a full day doing bigger slides than this one all by herself at Great Wolf Lodge.

Miss Tyler went down with her!

Yeah for my BRAVE girl!

And of course she showed that she has no problem swimming without touching....in the shallow end but not in the deep end!

We were both very impressed with Miss Tyler. We wanted to show her we appreciate her helping Jesstine to be brave. Jesstine was put in a class that was above her level and she actually did fairly well. It couldn't have been easy on her instructor though!

 (Front: Looks like Jesstine doesn't it?)

 (Inside)

(Back)

She reached new heights this week and climbed mountains (and climbing walls at the Y after swim lessons).

So tonight, we went to see the movie, "Brave!" I am SO glad I read the book to her first. She waited anxiously for each part of the story to unfold and there were some surprises as well. She sat through the ENTIRE thing. I think there was a scary part that she didn't like, but it was MUCH less scary since we knew it was there! All of it had a happy ending including the scary part! She was pleased! Oh, and you can't see it in the picture below, but she got her VERY own popcorn! (We went to the theater in the mall because the showtime was more convenient. Low and behold the price was ALSO more convenient. It was kinda weird though. We got her popcorn and then went to go back to the movie theater and there was no one there to take our tickets! It would have been SO easy to sneak in! I was honest though and noticed a guy coming through and looking around so I stopped him and made sure he saw that we had tickets and took our stubs! WEIRD though!)

SO proud of our girl! She is such a joy and this gave us the opportunity to spend some one on one time as well as check our "movie date" off her summer bucket list!

In Him,

The Hutchins Family

P.S. Stay tuned for updates on operation "Contain Emmitt!" and just to see what he has been up to! As you know, he is a little monster!