Let's Go Schwimmin'

In just a few weeks, our 2-year-old has been transformed into a little piggy-tailed fish.  The transformation has been a dramatic one.  Since the beginning of June, we have been frequenting our church pool to beat the heat.  It feels great to swim while pregnant, and I've been having a blast watching Lailey enjoy herself.  Here's how it went:

Day l: Lailey held on tentatively to me and didn't really get the whole kicking and paddling thing.  She just sort of...floated.

Day 2: She borrowed her friend Landon's floaties and started kicking (very little) and then jumping off the side of the pool, but only if I held her hands.  She was insistent.  

Day 3: Now the proud wearer of her own floaties, she decided she didn't need to hold anyone's hands.  She just jumped in!  She'd come up out of the water, with a surprised look, wipe her face, grin, and say "do it again!"

Day 4: She could jump off the side of the pool (with floaties), come up, and swim to the steps, and repeat, all by herself.  

Since a couple months ago, one of Lailey's favorite songs to sing is "Goldfish" by Laurie Berkner.  Davey will randomly say [from the song] "Wait a minute!" and she'll follow with "We're fish!  We don't take showers!  Let's go schwimmin, let's go schwimmin' in the bottom of the ocean."  That seems so fitting now that she loves the water so much.  

Jumping to Daddy

Hanging with Uncle Nick at his pool party

The other day Lailey played at her cousin Sadie's house.  Could it get any more fun than two cousins, a kiddie pool, a slide, and popsicles?

Giggling girls

I grew up very close to my cousins and now it's so much fun having our own kids be so close and play.  Lailey and Sadie are only 9 months apart.

Sharing the hose

Eating popsicles

 We can barely wait to go to the beach next week for our vacation.  Lailey is really excited about the sand, the pool, the ocean, pretty much everything.  What a great age!