The Beauchamp FamilyYes, we really are this geeky…

The kids have been hounding us all Summer to take them to the YMCA pool and we’ve been dragging our feet a bit… but we went last week (yes, I’m always behind posting for some reason, bite me).

The pool is really nice if you want to hang out and let your kids play. There’s a HUGE shallow area and splash pad. Me? I wanna get in the water! The “deep end” is only 4′ deep, but is TINY. The really tried to jam too much in the space available. I like our ‘hood pool much better, but I know that if I ever want to go read a book in the shade that’s a safe place to take them – very safe – like ultra safe.

EXCEPT…

Neither of my kids can swim. They will take swimming lessons again in the Fall because they’ve learned what the consequences of not being able to swim are – like not being able to go down the slides and not being able to have freedom in the pool. BUT they will let Cassie wear her swim vest in the shallow end, but not in the deep end. What? So, we had to deal with Miss Wiggly Butt and when they called for the hour break, we high tailed it out of there. At least we know the score now though. I get that they want the kids to learn to swim – I do too – but the harsh reality is that Cassie sinks like a rock.

Like I said, they have now both agreed to take lessons and Tom and I know we would rather hang out the neighborhood pool.

In other news, Jamie’s “fang” tooth is finally coming in, although a bit weird. I know it will straighten out, but he complains it hurts (ya think?) You can kind of see it in this picture – upper right of his mouth right under his lip, way up there:

and some other pics:

Cassie thought it was cool she could squirt me with Nemo.

Jamie stood under this thing for several minutes before one of them FINALLY dumped on him. It was HILARIOUS. He kept moving and the water would come down next to him.