Pool Time and Bubbles

The last week has been hot so the girls and I have really been enjoying the pool.  (Jason enjoys it as well but since he has to go into the office he only gets to enjoy it after six o'clock.)  The pool has warmed up to a lovely 75F (23C) and is so refreshing.  Ali still uses her short wetsuit to stay warm but it means she stays in the pool for a long time.  She is now swimming down "like a whale" to get dive sticks off the bottom of the pool and swimming along the bottom so her belly touches.  She surprised me the other day with an excellent canonball.  I had to run inside to get the camera so I could take a picture of her cannonball since she had such good form!  Besides dive sticks and cannonballs the girls just enjoy swimming sround the pool, playing on the floaties and noodles.  They love doing "motor boat" which is a fun thing that I played as a child with my mom.  I love that I can pass down a memory to them so even when I'm tired of doing "motor boat" I do it again as I'm sure my mother must have done when I was little.

We had a slightly cooler day on Thursday so we didn't spend the entire day in the pool.  The kids played in the playroom for a while but I like them to be outside in the summer so I had to think of something to entice them outside.  I started with bubbles that they could play with which they very quickly used up.  I was pretty proud of my mothering skill when I thought about making my own bubbles.  I made LOTS of bubbles that day.  I even used pipe cleaners to make giant bubble wants so the kids could make big bubbles which they loved.