The Ballet

We went to see another ballet last evening. This will be Philip's 2nd. Unfortunately he was pretty far away as we had friends with us and he sat clear on the end of the row.

The ballets were Gong which was contemporary ballet and Madame Butterfly which was very dramatic. He said Gong was boring, which I could see.He liked Butterfly but did fess up to missing the last 10 minutes of because he fell asleep! He was laughing about it. He said it wasn't the ballet but the fact that it was so late. Anyway, exposure to dance is good and my husband has been known to snooze during ballets too!

I hope he finds a liking for it because at home in Sweden he has a very fine ballet company to go see...The Swedish National.

Last day at State

Hi Mats and Lena,

Philip did so well at the State competion! He was having so much fun and looked so relaxed! He swam his best times for the year in both races and improved his placing. His relays both placed 4th. Afterwards he came up into the stands and watch the rest of the meet. He seemed happy to have it done. I had missed him. The team had stayed overnight in the hotel where the meet was held and we could only talk to him from the stands. I'm glad he will be back home now!:)

I love watching him interact with his friends. He is such a jokester and seems to have found some good friends on the team in Ian and Brandon. We were so proud of him. We have videod his races and my husband will post them on his facebook page.

I am truely loving your son now and am so greatful you let him come to live with us. I get sad in anticipation of him leaving. But I'm sure you are ready for the months to pass quickly and I can understand that!

Many happy regards,

MAggie

first day at Utah State Championships

February 7 at 9:36am
Hi Mats and Lena,

I know you will hear all about it tomorrow from Philip but I wanted to tell you about Philip's first night at State. He looked so relaxed and was very focused. He waved to us before each race and would smile so big. Of course I was screaming my head off "Go Philip!!" so he may have been thinking I was the Crazy-Host-Mom! His relay placed 4th and improvd thier time by 4 seconds. He placed 7th in the 200 IM and took 4 seconds off his previous best time also!! He was also ranked 9th going in so jumped 2 places! He looks great in the water. We are excited for his swims today.

Will update later!

Maggie

The Laundry

One of the first things I wanted to Philip to make his own was keeping his room clean and doing his laundry. He'll clean his room, if I ask him to directly...no joking about it because then he won't! He'll even clean his bathroom which I refuse to do...I just hate cleaning bathrooms!! But his laundry has been a hold out. He manages to get most of it in a hamper but the other night after my umpteenth load i asked him if he wanted to learn how to do it. Well the look I got said it all but he got up anyway. He separated his darks and I showed him the rest and voila...he was done. I told him his mom/girlfriend would be very impressed. He didn't seem to agree but was laughing about it.

Baby steps!!

The Laundry