Samantha's first blog

Posted By pamelamyers on May 31, 2010

This weekend, as the unofficial start to summer, the pool opened!  We had so much fun there last year that we were really looking forward to taking Sam.  We hoped she’d actually like the pool, and not (a) be scared by all the other kids, (b) be upset by the temperature of the water, or (c) just hate it for no reason other than she is a baby and she can do what she wants.  I am happy to report that she loved it!

Here she is all suited up in her lounge chair waiting for the pool boy to get her a drink with an umbrella in it. 🙂  She doesn’t look too thrilled, that is for sure, but I think she was just in awe of the whole place.  Her head never stopped swiveling the whole time.  She has an actual girly bathing suit, but for her first time, since we didn’t know how cold the water would be or how hot the sun would be, we put her in her swim shirt.  Bikini photos to come later (not until she’s 35 if her daddy has anything to say about it)!

We took her into the baby pool and Mark sort of dipped her feet in to see how she’d do.  As he held her, he kept dipping her deeper and deeper while I splashed water on her.  As each part got wet, she’d make this cute little “ooooh” kind of sound.  Eventually though, she got all wet.  For a while she just sat on Mark’s leg.  See, she is all smiles!  Everyone loved her little sunglasses.  She is really good about keeping them on.

We then realized that there is a “deep” end in the baby pool (if you can call a foot and a half “deep”), so we took her down to the shallow end where she could actually stand up.  Foolishly, we didn’t bring any toys with us.  Well, she spied this rubber ducky on the edge of the pool and pretty much stole away with it.  No one claimed it though, which was good since it gave her something to do.  We promised her we’d go buy her some fun pool toys.

I think this picture is cute because you can actually see her little feet standing on the bottom of the pool.

After a little while, she was really having fun.  She started splashing the water hard with her hands and having a good time making everyone wet, including herself.  She really doesn’t mind getting her face wet, which surprised me.  I thought it might upset her, but she is such a good baby, nothing seems to bother her.  If you look on the left by her hand, you can see the water splashing up.  Here’s one last shot of her having a good time.

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