It's summertime!

The pool is officially open for business! Technically, it has been open for a few weeks. It is finally not deathly cold and is okay to be in for more than a few seconds. This was on Memorial Day, it was still pretty cold, so all they could do was sit on the side and kick their cute little feet and splash each other. You can tell Luke is really diggin' the experience...

Now that Jacob is back to work at nights for the remainder of the summer, I took the kids over to Pop-pop's to do some swimming now that it is warmer. Warmer. Not warm enough for me to get in, but warm enough for me to feel okay sending Taylie in with another willing soul. Enter: pop-pop!

Tay and my dad swam around for awhile and then I brought Luke out to kick his feet in the water. After a few minutes he ended up getting in too. This was his expression most of the time. Again, I think he is totally into it.....right?


and then getting out. He for sure didn't appreciate the hood covering his cute red hair


I cannot believe that this is our 3rd summer swimming with Taylie! She is growing up way to fast. It has been so fun to watch her progression from year to year. Now, she climbs up the ladder and waits, as patiently as a two year old can, for you to come and get her so she can swim around. I think I need to do a fashion show of her swimsuits from year to year, I do manage to find cute ones if I do say so myself!

She is getting more and more daring every year. Her first year she was about 6 months old and she braved the infant floaty, last year I believe she tolerated water wings for all of 5 seconds before demanding they be removed and she would walk around the edge of the pool while holding someones hand and then hop into the pool, and this year she is jumping off the side of the pool into grandpa's (oops! I mean pop-pop) waiting arms all by herself with no assistance needed.


This is Slyvester the shark. He is on patrol keeping the pool clean with help of an attached chlorine bucket. Taylie likes to tell him "hi" and then give him a little smooch.
and again with becomeing more daring...she didn't want to wait for pop-pop because he had Luke, so she grabed my mom's finger from around the side of the lader and decided to jump in. Luckily, my mom had a good hold of her and Tay has strong muscles so she was able to pull her up just after she submurged herself and just float her over to the side. As you can tell, no permanent damage done and Taylie thought it was pretty cool!