B-Diploma!

My goodness, Tobias had a hard time getting his B-Diploma. One excercise in particular was hard: swimming 6 meters under water through a hole...

Well, on the day of the exam we were all nervous about him getting through the hole, but he did! After that there was no question about him being able to do the rest. He is a good swimmer and he enjoys swimming. He is also very able to swim through that hole, but for the longest time he was not convinced of that himself. So, he would look up to see if he was there yet way to early and as soon as he looks up he comes up...

Anyway, he got it right this time and he got his well deserved reward: his B-Diploma!!! The next day we went for our Sunday swimming session, but this time not to practice "the hole", but to have  fun in a pool with lots of fun stuff like water-slides!

Avondvierdaagse

There is an annual event for school children called "Avondvierdaagse". It is a walking event where the children walk for about 5 km for four nights in a row. Tobias' school participates and children from groups 3-8 can join. So, this year was Tobias' first opportunity to walk, and he did.

Of course, we were not sure what would happen since up until now we had only viewed it as an annoying annual event. They walk through our neighborhood just around the time you get home from work and sometimes you have to wait for like half an hour in order to be able to get home.

Well, I guess time changes things, because this year Lisa even walked with him one night, the final night (I was supposed to, but I sprained my anckle pretty badly playing tennis...:-( ). Anyway, Tobias came home very proud and tired every night and we would take his shoes off, have a drink and massage his feet :-). It was quite hot so he had to drink a lot and his feet got kind of sweaty and soft, the perfect ingredient for blisters. Fortunately he did not get any and he had a wonderful time.

Look at his proud face showing off his ("first real") medal!