Pool Peanuts

I love summer. A lot. I love scorching heat and pools and running through sprinklers. I even like sweating for doing nothing other than sitting outside. I think it's the Florida still in me this many years later. But I love it.

We took advantage of our town's pool and got family passes. The pool is a little inconvenient as it doesn't open till noon and I would love to kill time there in the morning before naps. But it's been a fun place to go after naps before dinner and on the weekends. And really I can't complain about a place that is 5 minutes from our house that I can take the kids to burn off some of their excess energy.

The kids took a few trips before they started warming up to the pool, well really the other kids at the pool. But now they are regular splashers and players. Which is awesome. As hard as this age is, there are so many fun things that start to happen. I love watching them play independently and see how much different they are outside of our home.

My normally fearless and brazen kids are actually quite shy among their peers. They start summer camp two mornings a week in July, so it will be interesting to watch them evolve socially this summer. I'm sure the shyness is a fleeting phase.

Baby Soups

The only words I mispronounced as a child were bathing suit. I thought my mom was saying "baby soup" and so that's what they've been called ever since. In anticipation of the summer, our upcoming trip to Wilmington Beach and our annual trip to Nantucket, I bought the kids their first baby soups.

Reese had a ball trying hers on, she was kicking and laughing the whole time.

Ryan didn't enjoy the experience quite as much.

I got the kids one suit each for the beginning of the summer, and two suits for the end of the summer. They're so adorable in their baby soups, I kind of don't want them to wear anything else.

Once Victoria Pool finally opens in July we'll head up to the pool a few times a week and splash around. I found these cute little shaded floats for the kids. Now all I need is for some of my teacher friends to want to hang out and play in the pool with us (hint, hint)! 

I'm also on the hunt for "swim lessons" that happen in the late afternoon/early evening. Something Joe and I can take the kids to together to spend some time splashing around as a family. If bath time is any indication, swimming is going to be a huge hit.

One thing I can't figure out is what to do about diapers. I'm not down for a code brown at the public pool. I saw Pampers Swimmers in BRU this weekend, but the smallest sizes started at 16 pounds. If you take your little people in the water, what do you put on their tiny tushies?