Last Swim?

We finally dragged some of the kids out of the house today to go to the pool. Alex didn't want to come, as usual. He wanted to keep playing with his friend A at our house. Anthony told us last night that he was invited to a birthday celebration, so he didn't go with the pool with us either. Natalie was the one who was the most excited, of course, with Eric being pretty close. She spent some time just swimming laps in the pool (with a tiny bit of prompting from her father). She's just going to become a better and better swimmer.

There weren't many people there today, after the pool had been pretty packed all weekend. That may have been because the sky was intermittently gray and cloudy and the fact that it did rain briefly earlier in the day. It got pretty darned sunny when we were there, although most of time it was cloudy. We didn't mind it because that meant it was cooler.

This picture above is of Natalie being thrown in the air by Patrick. There were only 2-4 other people in the pool (not counting the two lifeguards) the whole time we were there, so there was plenty of room to throw Natalie in the air. She loved it, of course.

Eric was content to stay by the steps. As usual, he would jump up and then when he came back down he would submerge most of his head in the pool, blowing bubbles while in the water, then he would stand up to get his head out of the water. The next step was always wiping his face with both hands to get rid of the excess water.

Both the SeaWorld and Fiesta Texas water parks are closing after today and I think the neighborhood pool will no longer have lifeguards after today too. We can still go to the neighborhood pool without the lifeguards, with a "swim at your own risk" agreement, but with the school activities ramping up, I'm sure we won't be at the pool very much if at all anymore. It's a little sad that this summer activity is ending, but life goes on. We'll find more fun stuff to do together. :)