Perhaps the crazy mishap at the last meet with the piece of metal finding Thomas was a bit of foreshadowing of things to come. After Vacation Bible School on Monday the boys decided to set up their lemonade stand again (they had been cut short by bad weather and a wayward raccoon on Sunday). So they did and some friends came over to give them some business.
Thomas was just sitting in the chair at the stand while a friend’s 4-year old was playing with the metal wagon next to him. He managed to kick the handle up and it flew up and hit Thomas in the eye (or next to his eye). I was thankful it didn’t hurt his actual eye, but it didn’t dawn on me until it was time for swim practice that it might pose a problem for swimming. It was pretty bruised and very sore and he was not able to put on his goggles without pain.
He was unable to practice on Monday. I talked about it with his coaches and we decided that he would not be put in anything for “points” at Tuesday’s meet just in case he was not able to swim. We asked them to put him in butterfly and freestyle exhibitions and they agreed. We had him ice it a lot on Monday evening and luckily by Tuesday morning’s practice he was able to wear his goggles. Still, we enjoyed a little break from having to stay until the end of the meet for relays!
Parker was up first with the 6 & under freestyle exhibition. As he was lining up, a friend asked me why Parker wasn’t wearing his goggles. I knew that he had them, so I rushed over to find out what had happened. He was next to jump in and told me he had given his to a friend who forgot his. I told him that was very nice of him, but I would rather he (Parker) swim with his and I had a spare pair I was happy to loan his friend. So I put them back on Parker, rushed over to get the spare set and rushed back just in time to give the goggles to the other boy and see Parker swim. Unfortunately, I did not have my phone with me and was unable to video his swim. Just trust me when I say he did much better and it was great to finally see some improvement with his swim!
Thomas was up next for his freestyle exhibition. He managed to get his lowest recorded individual time of the season (he swims faster in the relay, but those times aren’t recorded individually). So that was good. He was in lane 5 and swam in 24.50 seconds.
He didn’t have long before his next event, butterfly. He was happy to be swimming it again. I’m not sure his stroke was his best, but his time was okay. He was swimming exhibition, but finished a half second behind the 3rd place finisher. His recorded time was 31.19 seconds. He is swimming here in Lane 1 (closest to the camera):
Next up, this was the first meet when all 6 & unders swam backstroke. Parker is JUST learning this and his technique needs some work, but he seemed to have fun with it. His time was 51 seconds. But that was 51 seconds with a lot of smiles.
While we didn’t stay for the end, the team just barely missed out on this one too…losing by about 23 points.
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