Swimming, Tennis & a Little Dancing

I was able to reduce my work schedule this summer and I have only been working two days a week vs. my normal three. I'm loving having the extra day off, but the downside is that I probably won't get the hang of my new schedule until the summer is actually over! We have been going to the pool every day I'm not working. Leila has always loved the water and had an awesome swim teacher who taught her to swim when she was turning four, but I think Mia just may love the water even more than her big sis! She has NO fears and believes she can actually swim. I must go into bragging mama mode and say that Mia can swim a few feet on her own - with her head under water the entire time -but then she forgets to keep kicking and she quickly starts sinking. Mia, however, thinks she can swim like her big sister and doesn't think she needs me holding on to her. Wrong! So, she ends up wearing a swim vest most of the time and goes about her merry way all around the pool - shallow end, deep end, it doesn't matter - with me as her shadow. As she says so proudly, "I swimmin by myself."

My Happy Little Water Baby

Mia swimming to daddy.

I rode this slide for the first time yesterday and man, is it fast! (Which is why Leila loves it!)

Leila started tennis lessons last week. (It's right beside the pool.) She and Nolan practiced a little last night after swimming. Could this pair be the next Venus and Serena? ha ha

"Hey! Me try it, too!"

Here's a short little video of the girls dancing last night while waiting on dinner at the pool. I mean, how can you NOT dance to Grease? (I love that Mia was trying to dance like Leila, but she couldn't quite figure out which one of her arms she was supposed to be swinging.) :-)