At the Pool

It was a HOT summer, so we spent quite a bit of time at the pool.

 Mason was able to stand all the way out to the rope. Just barely, but he could. Made it a lot easier to have three kids at the pool!

Last Day of Swim Lessons

The boys came a long way in just one week! Hopefully, next summer, all three boys can take lessons for a few weeks.

Swim Lessons

Today was the first day of a week of swim lessons for Jackie and Adam. They did pretty well!

Luckily, Mason could splash in the baby pool during the lessons because he really wanted to go in!

Waterpark

While Jack was spending the night with Grammy, we took Adam and Mason to the pool. They loved the splash pad and the sand area.

Adam is watching me write this post; he went and found his swim trunks, came back, and told me that he wants to go there again, NOW.

Stormalong Bay

We spent the morning and most of the afternoon at Stormalong Bay, a really nice pool/waterpark at our hotel. This is the pool that the boys spent the most time in. The deepest it was came up to Adam's shoulders, so the boys were able to have free run of the pool.

Mason liked the pool, too. He did take a break from it in the afternoon, though, taking a nap in the hotel room while Daddy got some work done.

Jack preferred playing in the sand.

Grammy and Papa with the boys

Back in the water! Adam was a fish this day. He pretty much taught himself to swim by the end of the day. The only time he got out of the pool was to eat lunch.

Daddy and Mas in the lazy river

There's my fish!

Jackie going down the little slide. The boys went on this countless times and loved it...until they discovered that if you go up those extra sets of stairs behind the little slide, you could go down a big, twisty, speed slide.

Adam's turn

Getting the boys back over to the stairs for their next turn

Daddy and I or Papa and I took turns going on the big slide with the boys. One of us would go first, to be at the bottom to catch the boys, while the other sent the boys down and followed them down.

You are supposed to come down feet first, lying on your back, arms crossed. The boys tried to come down sitting up; sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't.

In this next pic, Adam ended up on his belly, face first. But, even as his face hit the water and was distorting his words, I could still make out him saying "AGAIN!!!"

Adam, finally tired enough to get out of the pool and off the slides

After this, Grammy and Papa left for the airport while the rest of us went to our room to get ready for our farewell dinner show.