Swim Meet 2

 Ben taking off to the right on the backstroke.

 Nicholas in lane one with, dare I say, pretty darn good form.

The ladies in lanes one and two.

After getting snow cones to pass the time before the boys' second race, I explain that we need to keep our ears open so the boys know when their next race is.

Nicholas: "Oh mom.  We're racing?"

"Yes son, that's why we're here."

"Oh."

So for meet number 2, I saw them all swim, there were no false starts, no one cried their way across the pool, and no one came in very last.

In the race against ourselves, we get high marks for improvement in just one short week.