Water levels

The pool continues to dominate our summer. It is actually wonderful because it is sort of the center of our existence. Our plans more or less come together around when we are going to the pool and how much time we are going to spend there. Connor has really come so far swimming this year, it's incredible to see. He is learning the front crawl, does a great doggie paddle and can jump in, go all the ay under, come up and swim to the side. He does back-flips under water and today, for the first time, he went off the diving board. It was sort of only halfway because he got 3/4 of the way down the board and then jumped sideways off and quickly got to the edge, but impressive nonetheless. Unfortunately, this is not allowed at the pool so the next time I told him he had to go to the end and jump straight off. He actually went out three times and just couldn't go to the edge and had to come back. So he's hit a limit clearly, but I don't expect it to last long.

One of the great things at the pool is we've gotten to the point where we know various people there so Jamie is often off immediately running around with his buddies. So it was nice yesterday when at the end of the day, most people had left so Jamie hung around with Connor and I. We had such a good time. We have these inflatable rafts and would throw them up in the air so that the came down Splat! in the middle of them and we would all laugh hilariously. Then we started playing a game, which may not sound good, but was fun. Jamie would take a water-ball, very soft to be clear and try and bean Connor with it while I tried to block him. Can't explain why it was so fun, but we just laughed and laughed.