Summertime

Hi! If I still have any readers out there… I decided to finally come back! :) Yes this is the theme of my blog – here for a while, gone for a while, here again.  I just can’t seem to keep up with it for long periods of time.  But a few entries to remember the life of today is better than none! 

So summertime has finally hit the Seattle area.  We had a long chilly, rainy June.  But as soon as 4th of July passed the sun graced us with its presence and temperature in the 90s.  Which meant that we broke out our swimsuits and have been enjoying the water!  This week has been milder – in the 70s mostly, but that hasn’t kept us out of the wet stuff!  Amina definitely takes after her mama… she LOVES to swim.  The Volz’s came home one day with a kiddie pool so we filled it up (not too high) and let the little ones play.  Amina had so much fun playing with Nathaniel and Bethany in there!  They spent half the time just laughing!  Every day she walks over to the pool and if we aren’t swimming at the time I have to drag her away from it so she doesn’t fall in trying to touch the water.  She loves to wear her ‘fwim fuit’ and go ‘fwimming’.  We also have a friend with a deeper backyard pool that we can actually swim in.  So one day we enjoyed an afternoon over there.  Amina was given a hand-me-down swim suit with flotation devices built in, so I put her in that, put water wings on her, and got in the water with her.  At first she was clinging to me, but then she remembered that she’s 2 and that she has to do everything by herself.  So she wanted to try swimming by herself.  I let her try (standing within arms reach) and she was able to keep her head above water and float for several seconds on her own.  She even go to the point where she wanted to climb on and off of a floatie all by herself over and over again.  Now the tricky part will be to teach her to swim without all the floatation devices!  That day I had to drag her away from the pool at 3:00 (her nap time was 1:00) and she fell asleep on the 5 minute car ride home!  We sure do love this weather! 

And the videos of Amina, and Amina with her cousins…