Splish! Splash!: Shi's first time at the pool!

Well...today was fun! Baby boy and I got up earlier than normal to make sure today's play date was a success. We planned to make a stop at my moms because she wanted to pack us a nice lunch to take along (fine by me, of course). Three towels, two lunches, one blue ducky, and extra diapers....then we were on our way to meet up with some old friends of mine and their kiddies. I can't explain the delight I felt driving through the little country town the way I did for years on my way to school lol. If you're familiar with the song You're Gonna Miss This by Trace Adkins, its a real tear jerker isn't it? Well if you didn't know, now you do...I HEART COUNTRY MUSIC. To be honest, I thought I wanted to cry for all the memories welling up inside. Well after that song came on I really almost lost it hah! Somehow I held it together by being equally excited about making new memories with my little boy. Anyhoo...enough about ooey gooey feelings.We planned to play at the outdoor splash/wading area but it wasn't going to be open for a few more hours so we had to go inside...which was fine because I don't have any baby sunblock yet (going with a natural choice, for sure). As fair as Shi is, I know he has to have it :) Among other things I haven't gotten around to getting him some swim trunks :/ but the cloth diaper covered in surfer monkeys was perfect! No matter how many things I didn't remember to bring or do before I left the house, it didn't seem to affect Shi's time. I got his feet wet first sitting on the stairs and as we watched the bigger children slip down the slide, eventually he was submerged shoulder-deep. I don't think he stopped kicking his feet once while we were in the water and he clearly wanted me to let him test his scuba skills by the way he was lunging away from me :) This is a rather short post I guess, but keep in mind that I'm mainly writing today to give some explanation to the pics I wanted to post of our adventure!

For lunch we had tuna on oat bread (well, I did) peaches, grapes and sweet tea! Shi had some fruit, juice,applesauce and crackers. Boy does he enjoy lunch time.
















Shi chillin by the pool side, waiting for me to get dried off so we could leave. He did great! This was topped off by a short nap in the car and a long nap at Nonna's :) All in all it was a fabulous day together














Doodle do!