Tori couldn't quite wait for Michael, she jumped right in with Jillian and started Day One of an entire week of Dress Up! They fell in nicely together- it was adorable!
I was a little more anxious to get to Snuggle Baby Michael, who is my sister's third child. He is so precious and already a strapping young man- He weighed in at 9 lbs. 3 oz at birth and at only 4 weeks, managed to roll over!! We're calling him Samson now.
Daphne, Me, Jillian and Samantha with Michael:
Wild horses weren't going to pull me away from that baby, so Matt took the kids out to get started swimming:
Tori used this little swim ring and was a little speed demon around the pool!
After my kids got comfy in the pool, they were ready to start some more adventurous jumps! Isaac, Daphne and Jillian decided to call themselves the "Love Family" and gave themselves names like "Cuddle", "Hugs" and "Heart"Then they decided to make up jumps where they hug and jump or kiss and jump together:
Can I just say that when we visited my sister last Summer, neither of my children would even put their faces in the water? And one of my children tried to use one of Shelli's children as a human flotation device, nearly drowning both children. (Names withheld to prevent sibling teasing) And now, after a little bit of Swimming Lessons, they became little Stunt Devils on the diving board:
And more silliness:
Did I mention the stunts? Here is Isaac in the middle of a back flip:
Matt would hold each of the kids and then shoot them into the air, where some of them would do more back flips:
Jillian:
I like how you can see Daphne fighting over the swim noodle in the lower portion of the pic!Daphne:
By the end of the week, they were all experts- I was so proud of them!! My sister was so generous to let us spend so much time in her pool over the week- I'm sure we left much more of a mess than we even realize, and she was quite the hostess, especially considering that she just had a baby!!! We love you, Shell! We had a blast!
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