Swimming pool

Who knew our community pool would be this awesome!? I wish I had taken Nikolas there when he was younger. It turns out that our kiddie pool is completely shaded late in the afternoon, and all three enjoy it so I can sit there at arm's reach from all of them.

On the very first day Sonja taught herself to walk through the water and only tripped twice where I had to pull her head out of the water. She was fearless, doing even her little bouncy dance. Also, by watching Nikolas, she learned how to blow bubbles in the water our first or second time there. Nikolas kept jumping in the water, that was his favorite thing, and pushing off in the water to glide fast (it's shallow enough that he can reach the bottom with his hands and not sink completely). Michael walked the perimeter of the pool, stopping to hold on to mommy and cuddle. He wanted to sit down and crawl but then he would realize that the water was too deep to sit so poor thing just stood there or walked a bit holding on to the wall. After a couple of visits he gathered courage to walk away from the edge holding on to the 'noodle' or some other large floating toy.