Saturday, July 03, 2010

Swimming

Our family has found a new love: swimming.  The kids LOVE the water, and they especially love that we bought a membership to our local pool for the summer.  Before this summer, they both enjoyed playing in water, but we can see a huge difference in their braveness in the water.  Ellie swims fearlessly (and very enthusiastically, everyone behind her gets soaked!).  Yesterday I taught her how to do a cannonball, and she also loves that she is now 2 inches above the height required to go down the water slides at the pool.  Rowan doesn't really swim, but he loves jumping into the pool at the 2 feet deep ledge (by himself, no catching allowed!).

We don't get many pictures, since we are in the water with them, but Jason did capture a couple videos.

Swimming today:  you can see Ellie in the pink swim outfit on the left side starting to swim away.



This is not a great video, it's just us after the kids' last swim lesson for the summer. I'm just posting it so you can see my 36 week pregnant belly in action :)

4 comments:

K said...

Very fun! Kierra and Ellie have matching swim outfits!

Anonymous said...

Kirsten, you look wonderful! Although I don't know if you could afford it, pregnancy looks good on you:)

--Aunt Karen

The Porters said...

That pool looks like fun! And I liked being able to see your pregnant belly in action. :)

Anonymous said...

I love the videos. I think it's great that you have your kids swimming...with all the sad stories I think it's important. Rowan's getting very brave! I want pizza too :)

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