It's All About The Pool

Sorry to be absent so long but there hasn't been much happening here other than swimming in the pool a few times a day to keep cool.

The Princess is really into dolphins after visiting the Clearwater Aquarium back when her grandmas visited. Since that time, she plays on Winter the dolphins website and has discovered the old Flipper tv show, which we now watch M-F at 4:00pm. :o)

Here she is pretending to be Flipper or Winter or some other dolphin:



That's all for now. Thanks for stopping by.

Lazy Day

Just a quiet Sunday for us.  Dogs are sleeping on the floor, E and I spent a good 90 minutes in the pool this afternoon and are now just hanging out.  E alternates between playing mommy to her dolly (who is suffering from a bleeding canker sore...the dolly, not E...who has quite the imagination) and reading books.  Gotta love Lazy Days.

The Pool Is Cool.....

but that didn't stop The Princess from going swimming again today. I'm not sure how many more days we will have to go in the pool. Even though it was near 90° today, the sun is lower in the sky and doesn't clear the trees that now shade most of the pool, so the water doesn't warm up as much as it does during the summer.

We are moving onto letter D in preschool. Some of the letters we are going to be moving through quickly as she does already know the sounds for most of the letters. The vowels, and other letters that have more than one sound we are spending a few extra days on. I am making some adjustments to what we actually cover, and how we cover it, so it is a learning process for both of us. E is still enjoying it, and we are spending lots of quality time together, so overall this is a great thing.

I think the turtle park will be in the plans for tomorrow. Oh, that reminds me of something cute. E told me one day after coming home from the turtle park with her dad that they play tic-tac-toe at the park and she would show me how to do it if I went with them. Well, I told her that I could play it with her right now and she couldn't believe it. I got out some paper and drew a tic-tac-toe board and we played several games and now that is ALL she wants to play these days. It is so fun to see her little mind trying to figure things out. I wish she could stay this age forever!

Same Ole, Same Ole

Not much happening here. We're still working on preschool stuff in the morning. E is really enjoying it, and so far, so am I. It's been warm enough to go in the pool still...well, the air is warm enough (it was around 90° today), but the water is a bit cool for me. The Princess, however, gets all in! I have a friend here who said her kids swam in December! Now, that is a too cold for me. We did start swimming here in April, and then the water temp was in the mid-70's...can't imagine how cold it would be in December. We had a quiet weekend, and today was much of the same, as I expect the rest of the week to be as well. Pretty boring..I know.

Trust Me

Today was a first for The Princess. For a few weeks now, I have been trying to get E to take off her water wings and try to swim just a short distance to me to see if she could do it. Each time I asked her, she gave me a resounding "NO!" I kept telling her "trust me. I won't let anything happen to you." That was not enough to calm her fears. My being her mother was not enough to sway her.

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Out Of The Mouths Of Babes

My husband and I still laughing at something The Princess said the other day about her dad.

There are many reasons why E loves her dad. He gets right down on the floor and plays games with her, builds sand castles with her at the beach, is the guest at many of her "birthday parties", lets her decorate his hair/body with any number of barrettes, jewelery, snuggles with her as they watch tv, has pillow fights with her, pretty much anything she wants. Her works very hard so that I can be a stay-at-home mom, but when he is home, he really enjoys spending quality time with her.

Fast forward to this past weekend. E and I just got out of our pool and are sitting in the sun drying off. E is nestled in the middle of her inner tube floaty that she likes to snuggle in when she is done swimming. She turns to me and says, ""Mom, I know some kids don't have dads, but I've got the best dad in the world." In that brief split second before she continues, I'm thinking, she's going to say something about how much fun he is to play with because we sometimes call him her "play mate" or something along those lines. No, as she continues with her thought, it was all I could do not to break out in laughter. "He picks up lots of dog poop from Jake and Luke." Of all the wonderful things that her daddy does, picking up dog poop apparently ranks #1. Out of the mouths of babes.

Up, Up And Away

Like most kids, E loves to play with bubbles. So today we took a break from swimming to play bubbles in the front yard. It's the simple things, really.

This Is The Life

Whenever E is in the pool, she'll invariably say "This Is The Life." She LOVES the water, the outdoors, whether we are at the beach or riding our bikes or just in our pool, as long as she can feel the sun on her face. Which is part of the reason we ended up leaving Seattle to move back to Florida. We BOTH needed to feel that sun, every day. It may be hot this time of year. We may be dripping with sweat whenever we step outside. But E and I agree....This Is The Life!