Fish

It seems like everyone is referring to their kids as fish these days. Last week I took the kids to the pool out north and I think we're going to try to make it there once a week now. Our neighbor, John, also is very generous with his pool. He opens it to the neighbors a few evenings out of the week and normally on the weekends if he's in town. Camri's always been a good little swimmer and is keeping it up. Vanessa has her mind set on learning how to dive. She hasn't quite learned to jump along with all of the other stuff (head down, arms out, toes on edge, blah blah blah), but I'm sure she'll do it perfectly by the end of the summer. Sabrina, who wouldn't get off of the steps last year, now walks around in water that comes just under her chin. She's become quite good at paddling around and retrieving things from the bottom too. She's always impressed with herself when she touches the floor of the pool. Mr.P insisted on being carried around up until a couple of weeks ago and now will jump in to any area (including the deep end) of the pool and paddle around with no problem. This is with a life vest on, of course. I don't think he realizes that it's the life vest that's allowing him to float which scares me a little when I think of him maybe jumping into water without one. He loves it though. One of the neighbors thinks he looks like a little otter. My goal for them is to jump off of the diving board by the end of the summer. It's still too scary for them right now. Snapshots are coming!