Cici Pizza Coupons, nail polish, and Divisionals

What do you get when you mix Coach Josh, nail polish, and the coveted Cici Pizza coupons?

Let me explain a little more.

When the 10 and under groups beat their time at swim team, the reward is a Cici pizza coupon for a free kids buffet.

My kids love to get those coupons. We basically will only go to Cici pizza if they have coupons, which means we pretty much only go in the summer around swim team time.

It isn't always easy to beat your time. To take off time at every meet is really hard. Between each of their strokes, each one of my children will usualy get at least coupons. Sometimes as much as 3. But usually one. They love to get these coupons.

So when Divisionals came around (yesterday) and all the swim team members were encouraged to pain their nails in the team colors, my boys said there was no way they were going to participate in that.

Coach Josh even offered an extra Cici Pizza coupon if Spencer would paint his toe nails. Spencer still refused.

Until JT agreed to do it if Spencer also did it!

Of course Gavin had no hesitations of joining in.

Then JT changed his mind. We were trying all kinds of bribes and to no avail.

I decided to try something to maybe break the ice with him, because he was beyond the point of even being able to enjoy himself.

I told him I wouldn't paint his nails without his permission. No matter what, I wouldn't do it unless he agreed to it. That softened him up a little. I then told him I needed his help painting my toes. I asked a 4 year old to paint my toe nails! What was I thinking?

He didn't just paint my toe nails, he painted my toes! Beautiful silver all over my big toe. Once I explained I just wanted to nail part to have paint on it, he did a rather great job. Spencer joined in and painted my other foot in blue. 

It was purty!

And then I asked JT which toe of his did he want red? Just one. He pointed to the toe I was now allowed to paint. Then he allowed me to paint the next one blue. I tried silver next and he about lost it. There was not way a football player painted his nails with anything sparkles. Red and blue were okay, but no sparkles.

Aren't these swimmers the toughest boys you've ever seen?

And I think the nail polish made them swim faster. Spencer placed 2nd for backstroke at divisionals and 3rd for freestyle. He competed in his age group against 60 kids. 6 teams. That is one fast swimmer!

And Coach Josh gave them an extra Cici Pizza coupon.