Madison went swimming for the first time this week. Brandon has been really looking forward to taking Madi swimming. So we loaded Madi up and went to the water park at one of the new hotels in town for our first swimming experience.
Madi wasn't quite sure about the pool at first. There are a lot of water falls in the park and that made it super loud in the pool.
But after a while she started to feel safe in the water and she started to stretch her legs out a little bit.
Brandon finally got to take his little girl swimming. He has been wanting to take his daughter swimming since the moment we found out she was coming to us. We went to Deadwood, SD for Halloween this past year, and Brandon was up at the crack of dawn swimming. He let me sleep in so he was swimming by himself. When he got back to the room he said he can't wait for the baby to come so that she could go with him to the pool in the morning.
We really made it a family affair. Grandad Rick, Uncle Brad and Aunt Amber joined us in the pool. Grammy Karen came to watch, and even Grammy Tammi was able to sneak off from work to come and watch. We put the Grammys on camera duty and we all had a great time.
Madison is sure the center of attention everywhere we go...I think it will be good for her to get some compitition this fall when Brad and Amber have their baby. So far the ultrasounds say they are having a boy, so it will be fun to have one of each for Christmas this year.
Mommy and Daddy and Madison
Mommmy, Daddy, Uncle Brad, Aunt Amber and Madison
Madison sure loves her Daddy! She found his beard this week and grabbed hold. I had to come and pry her fingers out of his beard. Brandon said he might have to shave it off...maybe it is just time to shorten it a little.
I am a big fan of this baby float. It really allowed her to feel comfortable in the water, and I felt a lot less nervous with her in this than just in my arms.
This is about the only picture we were able to catch when she didn't have her fingers in her mouth.
Madi with Uncle Brad and Aunt Amber
Somehow I suspect that we all just wanted to go swimming and Madison made a good excuse.
Brandon and Brad playing basketball.
Madi was sure ready to take a nap when we were done swimming. She sat with Grammy Karen and Grandad Rick with the rest of us went and played. The water park was pretty cool, with two waterslides and a lazy river.
We are leaving for a long vacation to Texas on Saturday, and I am sure that Madison will get to go swimming quite often to escape the 100 degree heat. (Texas in July...I think we are crazy!)
We haven't exactly had what you would call heat around here. Our temperatures have averaged in the upper 70's to mid 80's lately, with lots of evening thunderstorms. We had a very long hail storm early this week, it hailed for probably 30-45 minutes. We had drifts of hail.
My flower beds were filled with the pea sized hail...luckily no damage.
Along with the hail was some pretty significant rain. It flooded the feilds all around our house.
Well I supose I should get back to packing for our trip. We are leaving early Saturday morning for two weeks. I will try and post a few times while we are gone. I know that Grandad Rick, Grampa Bruce, and Grammy Tammi will be dying for updates and pictures while we are gone.
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