Swimming Fun!

At the end of last summer we bought one of those cheap collapsible framework pools on clearance.  For man reasons, I always balked at the idea whenever Jacob mentioned it in the past, but I could see the boys were not comfortable in deep water, so we wanted to give them routine exposure of some sort...so I broke down and we bought the cheap pool to see if we’d really want a real pool one day.

Well…leveling the ground and putting it up didn’t prove to be as easy as we anticipated, and after assembling it and starting to add water 3 or 4 different times, we (Jacob) finally got the job done.   (It has also been a learning curve for us to figure out pool care, but that’s another story.)   The boys loved it with 1-2 feet of water in in it and begged us not to fill it the rest of the way, but I’m proud to say that after just a few short weeks, they’ve gone from refusing to let go of the ladder or us, to independently floating and “swimming” on their own with floaties.  They love it!  Yay!

I love these two pictures.  Josiah always wants to help whether its scrambling eggs or working on a big project.  He’s going to learn so much from Jacob, except how to put up a pool in one try :)  (Jacob gave me a dirty look when he read this!)

But this is what the boys spent most of their time doing…playing in the dirt and mud created by Daddy leveling the ground.

Only Jacob wasted time putting on a bathing suit!

This is what the boys did when they got too cold in the pool.  They sat on the pool’s packaging and shared the screwdrivers to punch holes in it.  I think they had just as much fun doing that!

Prior the fiasco of setting up the pool, we used our Slip ‘N Slide.  It was spontaneous, hence the lack of bathing suits.  Jacob had to participate to show ‘em how it’s done!

Elijah’s about to get wet!

SLIP n’ slide!

My hubby is ripped! :)

So, so cute!

Elijah didn’t really enjoy learning to slide by Jacob pushing him!

The ham of the family.