My Little Fish

It's hard to believe that just a few few weeks ago Nathan was terrified of swimming and Abby had never used arm floaties before- because now they are crazy swimmers! I try to go a couple times a week and they sure have taken to the water! Nathan loves jumping in the water, swimming with his head under, and doing cannonballs with Chris. Abby has no fear and jumps in all by herself, swims around, and tries to anything Nathan does. It's so much fun to take them to the pool!

So for Family Home Evening I made a plan to go swimming- in order to maximize our swim time a friend graciously let us use the pool at their complex so Chris could more easily meet us there straight from work then eat dinner at the pool and a few of other families were able to join us! It made for a fun night of delicious food, great company, and Chris finally got to see all of the improvements in the kid's swimming skills!  I was nervous about bringing 3 kids to the pool by myself (I was babysitting a 2 year old and getting to the pool before Chris or our friends would be there) but it turned out to be a breeze- we're totally ready for 3 kids...ha ha :) After almost 3 hours of swimming we finally determined our kids had to get to bed and packed up and headed home.

The kids loved having Chris there with them- he's a lot more fun than I am :) Nathan loved jumping off the sides with Chris and playing football.  Abby just kept swimming around saying "Dada!" and trying to catch him- they couldn't get enough of him...I joked that someday I'm going to head off to work and leave them all day so they'll beg to be with me when I get home too :)

We are definitely going to have to do this again- it was the perfect way to spend the evening together!