Splish Splash, was i taking a bath?

Yesterday was a gorgeous day outside. So nice, in fact, that i thought it would be appropriate to take Mady swimming. Well, we don't exactly have a pool just yet. We thought about that fact last weekend when it was so hot outside, and we did the next best thing for her, we bought her a kiddie pool...you know, the kind we all had as a kid, the kind that took hours to blow up but was so much fun. Well, this one is a whale, and it's tail is like a shade for her, and you can attach the garden hose to the side of it and water will spray from the "blow hole". It's really very cute. Well, by the time she ate breakfast and was ready, it would have taken forever to blow that pool up. Plus, she took an extra long afternoon nap. So what was the next next best thing for her?! Swimming in the bathtub. Yes, you read that right. We put on our bathing suits, i filled the tub with coolish, warmish water, and we went swimming in the tub. It was quite fun. Next, i'm going to buy her an inner tube floatie thing that she can sit in, and we'll fill the tub more and let her kick around. Oh the things we'll do to entertain our children. I can't wait until the river is open and we can take out the boat, and when school's over and i can take the baby swimming, in a real pool.

Here she is, with her first barrette in her hair. It barely stayed in, but it looked so cute!

Here she is enjoying her first summer day