Swimming

We finally made it to the pool this year. I faced my fear of the swimsuit!! The kids had such a good time. It was a lot of fun. It is great that Tristen and Makayla can pretty much do whatever they want in the pool. Gavin and Savannah had to cling onto Hans and I - seriously Gavin was clinging. We had to keep telling him not to hold on so tight. He did have a lot of fun and finally was relaxing a bit more. Gavin doesn't really like to get his face wet. Every time he takes a bath or a shower he is always telling us "not my face". At first the splashes were making him nervous, but he ended up doing really well. He would go under the water with Hans and was even jumping in. I though maybe he would get over the wet face problem, but sure enough as soon as he was going to take a shower he made sure that we didn't get his face wet. Savannah loves the water, but this pool just doesn't have a shallow enough end for her to easily play in (unless you go to the kiddie pool that is about 1 1/2 ft. deep). We did have to tell Tristen that he wasn't allowed to do flips in from the side. We didn't even know that he could do it until all of a sudden he did. At first I didn't even know that it was Tristen. I thought it was another kid, but no it was Tristen. It was pretty cool although probably not the best idea.