Chase's First Swim Meet

Chase tried out for the summer swim team in May and luckily he made it.  He was so happy when his best friend Raeder made it too.  He's only been swimming for a couple weeks so he was a little nervous for his first meet.  Matt was on-call so I figured he wouldn't be able to come.  But by some miracle he was able to see Chase's last two events.  Chase had to be there by 4:00 to check in and start warming up.  But then he didn't swim for two and half hours.  It was a long wait but finally he swam his first event.  He didn't want to do the back stroke but last week they were working on it so I talked Chase into doing it.  He's hit his head several times so that's why he doesn't like swimming it.  But he had to swim a 50 meter back stroke and he did great.  He had a hard time going straight but I was so proud of him for even trying it.  He took 6th place.  

Chase's second event was the 50 meter freestyle.  I think this is his strongest event but there are lots of kids that do this event.  Chase looked so strong in this event.  He took 4th place!  He almost forgot to put on his goggles but at the last moment he remember and quickly put them on.  He looked so good! His final event was almost at the end of the night.  He loves to swim the butterfly so he did the 25 meter.  I think the butterfly is the hardest stroke so I'm amazed by his strength.  He took 2nd in that event.  Bridger loves to cheer for his brother.  While we were waiting around for Chase to swim, Bridger worked on his "homework."  He gets so into it that it borders a little on OCD.  I love this picture of the boys.  They love each other so much.  Bridger is always putting his arm around Chase.  He wants to be just like him.