Fun in the Sun!

My children all love to swim. Bryan is here this weekend and we have gotten to swim the last two nights. We do not have a pool in our neighborhood, but we have one that is really close and some great friends that will let us borrow their keys. There is a baby pool and a big pool. The first time that we took Bailey she loved the baby pool b/c she can actually stand up. But she fell over very easily  if there were any "waves." We had a floaty for her, but she didn't like it at all.

The next time we went we brought a little round donut floaty for her and she could easily walk in the baby pool and not fall over. It was perfect until she decided that she would rather climb in and out of the pool than actually swim. This presented quite a challenge with her donut. It would not let her climb out of the pool.

On one of her trips from the big pool to the little pool tonight she was wearing her floaty and Daddy was right behind her. She got to the pool faster than Daddy and tripped over her floaty donut thing. So she fell into the baby pool head first. Needless to say IT TERRIFIED HER. We quickly scooped her up and she didn't even seem to have swallowed any water. All was well except for the tears of fear. Jonathan suggested that we try to get her to get back in the water so that she wouldn't be scared next time. I told him that I thought it might be a good idea for her to be a little more scared than she was this time at the pool. One time she was trying to back into the big pool. I had to jump in front of her so that I could catch her before she jumped in!

Kylee loved the pool too. She is at such a fun age, but I haven't really gotten to play with her much because I am having to wrangle Bailey. She enjoys jumping in from the side and trying to swim while kicking her legs. I would love to enroll her in swimming lessons, but I think we will have to wait until next summer. We were having some swimming time together and her conversation made me quickly realize how much I have been working on VBS. She said, "Come on Mommy let's swim to VBS." I said, "Where is VBS." Kylee: "Oh its over here by the steps." Me: "What are you going to learn about at VBS?" Kylee: "Swimming lessons!" I guess we still have a ways to go LOL!

Hope all of you are doing well!