Racing Day, it's Racing Day

Saturday June 2 was racing day for the Evans boys! Both Austin and Ryan were competing in their first triathlons.

First up was Austin in the 6-7 age category. He had to swim 25 metres (with a lifejacket), bike 1.5 kilometres and then run 500 metres. He completed it in 19 minutes and 10 seconds and we are both so proud of him!

He looked pretty wiped when he got to the finish line, but was pretty pleased with himself too. And on the way home, when we asked him if he had fun, his response was "I want to do another one again this year"! I guess it was fun!

Ryan raced a few hours later -- completing a 200 metre swim, a 9-kilometre bike and a 3-kilometre run in 35:58!

They did they're triathlon with our friends the Emersons and the Markhams -- below is a post race picture of  all the athletes!

And, of course, a post race photo of our athletes!

And here's a slideshow with all our photos:

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A quick update on what's going on

It's been awhile since I'm simply written an update on what's going on, so I'll try to keep it short and sweet here.

Alexandra
Alex has now finished preschool. She loved the program and I'm sad to see it come to an end. But it's time to start thinking about Kindergarten!

She has also finished speech therapy and will be going for a re-assessment later this month. I think she's improved greatly from the few months of therapy (she couldn't even make a 'k' sound before and now, not only can she do it but she remembers to use it in every day speech) but we'll see what the therapist says. If they think she would benefit from another session of therapy, then we'll likely try to squeeze it in over the summer.

Alex is also playing soccer for the first time this summer. (Ok, she played tot soccer when she was 2 but that doesn't really count because she wasn't really into it.) It just started last week so expect pictures of our soccer star soon.

Austin
Well with the school year coming to an end, it means Austin is just about done Kindergarten and is getting ready to go to Grade 1 in the fall. Can you believe it?! He's doing very well in French Immersion and seems to be picking up the language well. He can even string together short sentences.

He to is playing soccer this summer. For Austin, it started a few weeks ago and he seems to be enjoying it very much. It helps that his best friend Evan is on his team. Expect pictures of this soccer star as well! Austin's skating lessons are also done for the season now, and he's asked to play hockey in the fall.

Everything else I can think of
Both kids will be going to camp for two weeks in July -- Alex for half day camp and Austin for full day camp. It's the same camps they went to last summer, so they're both really excited to be going back.

Let's see, what else? Gymnastics is almost done. They both seem to have enjoyed it very much, but are now tiring of it. They've been going every week since the first week of September so I guess it's time to do something new.

Austin, Ryan and me have all competed in races recently. First I ran a 10K on Mother's Day (finished in 1:09:47 -- just 8 seconds shy of my personal best) and then Austin and Ryan ran triathlons on June 2 (race report and photo slideshow to follow shortly).

We got a new kitten at the end of April. Her name is Moo and she's now a little over 3 months old. The kids  absolutely love her (in fact, every night they ask for their doors to be left open so Moo can come into their rooms and sleep) and more importantly, Moo absolutely loves the kids. This is important because our other cat Chloe is terrified of the kids so it's nice for them to have a cat to play and cuddle with.

That's all I can think of for now...so I'll leave you with the last two slideshows:

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