Sunny Days!

At the beginning of summer, I coaxed my boys into the apartment pool.

"We'll DROWN," they whined. "We can't swim!"

I promised them that dad and I would show them how, and so the lessons began. Panic would set in from time to time as they attempted to swim the short distance across the pool, and they'd come up gasping like it was their last breath.

Here, in TN, we've been going to a much bigger swimming pool, with slides and diving boards. Jordan and Cayden both started off on a small diving board, wearing Adrian's life jacket because they just couldn't envision themselves swimming the whole 8 feet to the ladder after diving in that deep water. After a day, Jordan worked up the nerve to dive off the big board, still wearing that lifejacket.

Some kid took to picking on him about that jacket, and so I beat the kid up Jordan decided to try diving without it. Cayden followed suit, and the next thing you know...

OH MY WORD (as my dear mother-in-law would surely say)!

Can you see him?!? It's Cayden, just about to jump off that high board. My precious 5 yr. old middle child, fearless and confident.


He dived off that board at least 20 times, and I cringed and prayed every time!

Here's Jordan flying sailing through the air. Fortunately, most of his diving was feet first, so I did a lot less cringing.


I was busy taking pictures and video of the boys on this day, so I didn't do much relaxing, but we sure had fun!