My swimmers

It went on for about 10 weeks taking major portions of 8 Saturdays, but it has finally ended. I just ordered actual swimming pictures taken by the team photographer--they're awesom and will be posted soon.

The kids are all good swimmers and Colton ended up with the 2nd highest points for his age group and Jake with the most for his age group. Colton was also playing water polo for a summer league through the high school that ended just last Wednesday night. Now during summer league swimming, most kids wear the longer jammers (modeled by Eli in the picture) but in high school they don't--it's little speedos that barely cover the backside. Colton is quite a modest kid, but yes, he has to fit in, so he got his first little speedo. But, aghast, his upper thighs are too white and so he tried to get a tan, laying out(I got him some self-tanning stuff to help avoid skin cancer). When he was born almost 14 years ago, I never thought this is where we would be--tanning to wear speedos? I pictured baseball (which Colton hates) wearing full uniforms, everything covered. But, alas, this is the perfect sport for him, and I'm so glad he has something good to do in high school. Much better than his fallback of catching rare pokemon on the computer. I'll take the swimming.

And now Caleb is already following. He's found Jake's old speedo and loves it. It's our delimma. It's just the cutest, but am I training up a righteous posterity? I'm sure modestly applies to boys as well as girls. But, if this is my greatest worry these kids give me, then I suppose all is well. It seems we're in for years to come of speedo-wearing boys. I should get used to them 98% naked and maybe I should be buying stock in that company?