swimming

AngelBaby had her first swimming experience yesterday. The girls have been begging to go to the pool so last night, we went. The big girls bounced and begged the whole way there and when we finally arrived, they were dressed in a flash and immediately in the water. AngelBaby and I followed more leisurely, taking time to watch her face and we joined Daddy in the 89 degree pool. Her eyes were big but her face mostly expressionless as I held her against me. But when I held her out so she was free to kick and wiggle, her face slowly brightened with a huge grin followed by more kicking and some added happy squeals.

We played for a long time, Butterfly pranced around on the jungle gym, Ladybug sat on daddy's back to play shark, they each did laps up and down the giant twister slide and Ladybug made an occasional optimistic break for the high dive. We played long past bedtime, until the pool closed and they kicked us out, soggy, wrinkly and exhausted.

We took our tired, happy fish home. another great swim date. :)