My Girl is Growing Up

Well it’s that time of year again. Belle started swimming last night. We had to buy her a new bathing suit as last years was a little snug so on Tuesday I tried it on her. She screamed the whole time. Wonderful. Then kept telling The Hubs and I that she didn’t want to go swimming. Ugh!

When we took her to sign her up she was so excited and couldn’t wait to go swimming. She jumped around her classroom at pick up time yelling she was going swimming. Monday and Tuesday she kept telling us no. She didn’t want to go swimming.

At least on Wednesday morning she was more excited for it and excitedly told her teacher she was going swimming. She will have 2 more sessions after this with us being in the pool with her. Then she will move on to preschool aquatics at age 4. This session we decided to get her the bubble. I think she was ready for it last session so we got it this time. Belle did really well last session so the bubble will help to teach her how to do things on her own and we can more easily teacher her to swim if we don’t have to hold her up and show her how to move her arms and feet. I only have two arms!

All in all Belle did great in class. She loved it the minute we got in the freezing cold pool to the point where she tried to fight me because it was time to get out. She remembered everything from last session which is great. We have noticed the spring session is crazy. The class is bigger and there are a ton of little babies in the class. I mean little, definitely had to be under the age limit. We waited until Belle was over a year since this is more of a class to start teaching the kids how to swim not really meant to get them use to the water, and the age limit is 9 months. Oh, and the pool is FREEZING. Belle was shivering the entire time and her lips were purple when we got out of the pool. We noticed that the fall session was half the size and after a few weeks when about a quarter of the original class stops coming it was perfect. Belle learned how to actually use her arms and legs to swim. We didn’t learn any of that in the first spring session we took.

We are hoping this class will eventually get smaller as the weeks go one and Belle will get to learn some more. She did awesome with her back float this time. She would never do it the last two sessions and would cry and try to flip over. She didn’t fight me once and was laughing and talking to me the whole time. I think the bubble is giving her more confidence in the water too.

In other news we got our contract for preschool in the fall this week. I can’t believe I am signing my baby up for preschool already! Where has the time gone? We have until April 1^st to register her to be guaranteed a spot in the preschool program at the center she is already at. Since she is already enrolled in the center we don’t have to put down a deposit or anything and we get first dibs on the program. Another reason why we picked this center. September 4^th 2012, my baby starts preschool. It makes me want to cry.

Random

Truth, I didn't know what to write about for today. I started a post discussing what has been going on in my head that last couple of months. But to be honest, this heat and no AC kept me from wanting to finish it. So instead I am posting pictures of Belle swimming in her pool. Cause in reality that is all we have been doing the last few days.

We love our pool!

Cutest pony tail ever! Her first one. I can't believe how long her hair is getting!

Splish Splash

With the hot weather here the last few days we pulled out Belle's pool. She loved it last year and she loved swimming classes so I never figured that she would cry when we first put her in. But she did.

After a minute or two she finally looked around and started splashing a little in the pool. She was laughing and playing with the sprinkle part of her pool.

It took a while before she would actually sit down in the pool but once she did she started putting her face in the water. Not fully yet just her forhead. I am hoping that by the end of summer we can get her to blow bubbles into the water. I want her to know that you blow into water not inhale water. Another reason we will keep her in swimming in the fall.

I hope the hot water sticks around and Belle has plenty of pool time this summer.

Fun In The Sun!!

Happy first day of Summer. Finally it is officially summer! The weather here has been ok. We have had some very hot days, which this early in the season in very unusual. But a lot of rainy days as well...and of course mostly on the weekends. Hopefully it turns around and we have more days like the one below.

I LOVE summer. It is one of my favorite times of year. We have a long winter in this area. So when summer comes it is full of parties and festivals. We are so busy in the summer with all different events. I absolutely love it all.

We bought Belle a little splash pool for the backyard. It was very hot on Friday so we set it up before we went to the zoo (pictures coming soon) so it would be ready for when we got home. The water was still a little chilly and I had to clean out a zillion bugs that apparently thought they could swim but Belle seemed to love it. At first she was a little unsure. So I grabbed some of her bath pals and she was fine. She slowly got more and more use to it.

Belle's cool crab pool. I wanted to get her the blue fish pool...the hubs grabbed this one and we didn't realize until we were home. Oh well, they are the same exact pool just different colors.

Sprinkler action!

She got more and more use to it and even started moving to the sides to grab at the sprinkler. I did learn that her bathing suit that she has only worn about three times now is getting very small on her. Looks like it is time for a new one....or two.

I am so excited for this summer. It's our first one with Belle. I can't wait to take her to the Lawn Fete's, and to the fair. Her first 4th of July, and her first family picnic. We plan on getting our resident ID cards so we can take Belle to one of the 4 town pools we have. I also for the first time since starting at the bank, have 4 days off in the summer. I have never taken vacation time in the summer. I can't wait!