Water Brings Out the Best in My Kids!

The best thing about water is that it makes my kids clean. But this is not about baths because the video I have of Isaiah singing to himself in the bath is 15 seconds too long to upload. The kids just finished up their very first round of swimming lessons. They were lucky enough to register for a nearby class with several of their friends. Or maybe I should say that my friends and I monopolized that particular class with eight of our children....On the last day of swimming lessons, the children were given a half hour to show us what they had learned.All of the children jumped off of the diving board. This is Madeleine. We are lucky enough to have a hot tub on our deck. The previous owners installed it; it came with the house. It's 12 years old and not very big but it's big enough for a seven year old, a six year old, a four year old, and a two year old to show off their moves!This day, the three older kids would bring their diving sticks to Isaiah one by one. He would throw them and say, "Get it, dolphin!" They would bring them back like little puppies dolphins, and he would throw them again.

Noah loves to splash.

Morgan loves for me to take pictures of her holding her breath under water. Madeleine was too busy being a dolphin to allow me to snap a picture of her. What fun!