Summer is Going Swimmingly

The weather has been very Summer-esque around here. We haven't had a good rain storm in over a month (which is pretty unusual), but the warm summer days have been abundant so we've been playing outside, going to playgroups and made a couple trips to the pool. It's unfortunate that pools are not as popular out here as they are out west, but at least we know of one person whose in-laws have a pool and so we bombard their home every time we're invited.

So yesterday on our little pool day Ethan wanted to go swimming. Typically this would mean that I would have to hold him the entire time and he would claw at me if I wasn't holding him properly. But for some reason after a few minutes of dragging behind Eleanor's floating thing he decided to let go and try swimming (with a life jacket of course) on his own. I couldn't have been more proud, and happy to not hear him screeching at me every couple of minutes. He was loving it and ventured to the deep end and back probably a dozen times. Eleanor was content just sitting in her floatie with me pulling her around. I could definitely get used to pool days like this.

Simon and Ethan