Pool Party

As usual, our pool wasn't ready at summer's beginning (which is like March around here, right?), but it wasn't too bad because it pretty much rained all of June anyways.  We're making up for lost time regardless.  Travis had the pool a beautiful blue (not confused with Bleu) by the time we got home.  The kids are loving it.  Check out Jaggar.  He has NO fear.  He is totally unafraid to do anything, and I constantly have to tell him to back off a bit...as in no flips into the shallow end.  Sage is JUST now starting to do these things and has also learned how to flip beautifully, but it gives Travis panic attacks to watch that.

Check them out. Obviously, Jaggar swallowed a bit of pool water.  He loves to watch this back and hear himself.  I also love how Jaggar literally runs all the way into the water.

He really wears these goggles.

 She has always had a knack for posing in the air.

 We were so close last summer...when I was out there regularly and tan...we've drifted. :)

 Speaking of that tan...I totally foresaw LAST summer exactly where I would be this summer.  The bigger kids would be in the pool all day, and I'd love to let them.  However, there is a time in babyhood when the pool is one of the most miserable places to be.  I've still got a good year, if not two, to be here.  It's good though.  But this is what outside is like.  I try to take Sage and Jaggar if/when Costner lays down for a nap, but that's so unpredictable that I'm constantly running in to see if he's screaming.  And when he is outside, he doesn't last that long before he's squirming to get down.

 Unimpressed with the pool or the humidity that you could cut with a knife.

Still Swimming

Apparently, we may need to heat the pool so that we can swim year round because Jaggar cannot NOT go swimming each day.  He will have an absolute melt down if he can't swim.  I don't mind to take him.  He stays out there for about an hour, and he'll say, "I'm done swimming now."  It's still very warm in the afternoons, but we've had some chilly nights, making the water...cold.  He doesn't mind though.  

I think this was his subtle way of telling me that he wanted to swim.  I got these goggles on clearance, and he thinks they're awesome.  He'll say, "Where's my underwater thing???" 

Happy boy...isn't he beautiful?  I'll look at him and say, "You're my baby."  And he says, "I not a baby.  I'm a boy!"

This is standard for EVERY time that we're outside.  Every.  Time.  I just give up.  It's the joys of being a boy.

 And he sleeps great at night.  On Saturday, I got him a new Halloween book and he insisted on sleeping with it.  I went into his room to check on him, and he was actually holding it while he slept.  So cute.  My baby.

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.