Summer Days

With summer approching, I had visions of me and Emma going to the pool to swim and hang out. Well I took Emma to a splash pad last week and she was miserable. She cried, clung to me and did not want any part of it. So I packed us up and left. That afternoon I decided I would take her to the pool to see how she did. Once again she did not like it. All I could think was we are going to be stuck inside for the rest of summer because my child is afraid of water. I took her on Monday, and she made a little bit of progress. She sat on the top step, but she would not let me get in the water. Finally today Michael came home a little early from work. We all put our bathing suits on and lathered up with sunscreen and headed to the pool. Wouldn't you know our little stinker did great! She loved "swimming". She put her head in a few times and moved her arms all around like she was swimming. Unfortunately, a storm came up so we were only able to swim for 15 minutes.

Preparing for the big swim!!

Not too sure about everything but thinking about it.

Thinking she might scream at any minute!

And she loves it!!!

I was videotaping her for a little while. I tried to get her to look at the camera, but she did not even want to take a second to look at me. She wanted to keep swimming. I am keeping my fingers crossed that this keeps up for the rest of the summer.

Summer is here!

Emma and I have been spending just about every weekend we can at my parent's lake house. She really seems to enjoy it out there. She lets us know everytime a boat is on the water which is all the time. We took her out on the boat. She sat there mesmerized.

Emma checking out Doc's fish. She kept wanting to look at them. My dad was so proud of the White Bass he caught.
Enjoying some of Gigi's homemade ice cream!

Chilling on the boat!! We were tied up!