Little Fish

My blogging has suffered lately. I'm well aware of it, so since it's raining and 4 bathrooms have been cleaned, I thought I'd take a minute and post about my fish. We swim everyday for about 2 hours in the mornings, and Travis usually takes them out again after dinner. We have a pool. It's 170 degrees outside. We live in Oxford. What else would we do? Jaggar, in particular, has grown leaps and bounds in his swimming. At the beach, he wouldn't even leave the steps. He'd say, "It's too dangerous." NOW...well, I have video proof of what he's started all within the same week. First of all, one night I go outside, and Travis says, "Look at him." Check him out here. Even though he has a life jacket on, he is SWIMMING. I think that's impressive. Or I THOUGHT it was. OH, and Sage is really wanting to dive. So Travis tried to teach her some basics.

This is where we're at now. :)


Sage is quite the swimmer. I don't worry about her at all anymore as far as being able to hold her own. I do worry about her trying to ride Jaggar's back or pull him under the water with her.

I worried about her pulling him under until like the next day. They were playing ring around the rosie in the pool, and Jaggar realized that he could dunk himself on the "we all fall down!" part. So yeah, he goes from leaving the steps to going underwater. Travis said, "He'll be jumping in tomorrow." I said, "Nah..." But...

The NEXT day....The child literally has no fear. None. I mean, he's not playing around. Each child is always trying to outdo the other. Is it ever any other way?

This one is always jumping in. PS: Check out her BIKINI. She has wanted a 2 piece for FOREVER. I didn't really have any problem with it (though some people putting their children in string like bikinis kind of disturbs me...and I'm not at all what I'd consider the definition of modest to be), but the problem was that she's finally out of the "baby" section at Target, but she's still too small for the bigger girls' clothes. So bathing suits, allowing little margin for being too big, were a problem. I did find this Hello Kitty one on clearance, and I figured for $5, she can grow. It actually works really well.

They do love each other...most of the time.

I thought this was pretty one day while we were out.

Last but not least, my personal favorite video of Evil Knievel. So a day after he was jumping in, and two days after he was going under, and three since he even left the steps, he decided he would give it a go at diving. I haven't seen many things that are funnier than this.

I sure do hate to see these summer days coming to an end. This is really our last week of lazy days. School orientation is next week. Dance starts next week. Sage has her first doctor's appointment in Birmingham next week...at 8am of course. I will miss the "simplicity," if that exists, of what we have going on now. Sure do love these two.