Splashing Around

Today was Molly's first dip in the pool! We decided it was time to make use of our free temporary membership to the Y (long story), and headed downtown to check out the pool. Timing was a bit hard, due to naptime, but enthusiasm was high.

We were very careful to take pictures to document Molly's first time in the water, but we neglected to account for the humidity fogging up the camera lens. So I will only submit one blurry photo for you to see.

 Molly didn't seem too impressed by the pool. She didn't get excited about it, nor did she get mad about it. She stayed open-eyed most of the time and watched everyone and everything going on around her. It was a pretty busy place.

Post swim, the lens was clear!

Hayden and Eliza had a great time, especially Eliza. She was about to explode with excitement over being in the pool. The couple times I needed to get her to stop and focus on me (once when she ran away from me on the pool deck, and another time after she had dunked herself underwater), she simply could not focus. She absolutely loved the little slide they had into the pool - she must have gone down it at least 20 times. We stayed up until closing time (5 pm) and she was just heartbroken to have to get out of the water. In the locker room, she asked over and over again, why is the pool closed? Apparently my alternating answers of, it has to close at night time, it can't stay open all the time, were unacceptable to her.

Even outside in the car, her face still looked like this, because she was so sad about the pool.

just so, so sad that the pool closed.

 On the upside, after time in the pool and a shower, her hair looked like this! Love those curls!

our very own goldilocks

She's going to have a blast this summer, as long as I can figure out a way to handle three kids in the pool at one time!