Swimming Fun

It's summertime and what would summer be without the pool and the beach.

The kids took swimming lessons and that was fun, but too much for Mommy without Daddy. It was four days a week for two weeks straight. Translation, nothing but the pool for nearly two weeks. I like to get out more, sorry to those fish out there.

Other than those two weeks, we've been heading to the pool and/or the beach at least once a week all summer. Unfortunately I don't have many pictures, not enough hands, but here are a few of them...

Mikey loves his goggles and he is now swimming underwater. He loves the water, but he is cautious. I don't mind that!

Not only is Sami adorable in her Tankini's and Surfer shirts, but she is cute in the water. She's great at going underwater and experimenting. She is timid, but she's gaining more confidence as we go each week.
Then there's Roman...he's totally going to be a surfer. In his swimming class he wanted to skip learning to float and stand on the floating board. And he actually did with exceptional balance. He also is perfectly fine with going underwater and loves to blow bubbles in the water (btw - he's 18 mos this month). He's NOT cautious and very daring.

As I mentioned earlier, we head to the beach often as well. I figure that we live too close to the beach not to go often. However, I have to admit, it's not my favorite idea of fun with the kids. Don't get me wrong, it's fun, but it's exhausting for me. There's so much that could go wrong and so much work, sand, and sweat that goes into a trip to the beach. Needless to say, my beach chair doesn't get much use.

Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures from the beach (again, not enough hands, although perhaps Beth got some good ones when we met her there... Beth, any good ones?). But, I can tell you that next summer I'm hoping I can convince Michael to get all of us to take surfing lessons. I love the idea of surfing and the kids thought standing on the boogie board was the coolest thing ever.

I know, they're a little young, but I'm sure they have something we can do with them to begin to teach them surfing. I plan to sign them up for more swim lessons through out the year to improve their swimming skills so we can try surfing asap!