pool weather

We spent most of our afternoons in the pool this past week for Spring Break. Unfortunately, Bella has started another runny nose so we kept to the tiny blow-up pool on the balcony for Friday and Saturday. I can't get over Arabella's hair in a pony tail. Too cute.

trying to tire them out

Addie sleeps so restlessly sometimes. It's so aggrevating on nights that Bella sleeps like a dream. I'm up every hour responding to bad dreams, coughing, requests for water from the ELDEST child. They usually alternate sleepless nights so if it isn't one it's the other.

My plan to knock them both out...afternoons at the pool until little Bella starts shivering and her lips turn purple. The poor thing can only take about 45 minutes in the pool now that all her baby blubber has shed away. Look at those skinny thighs now!

Bella barely lets me hold on to her and low and behold when I let go of her she sucks in a gallon of water but wants to immediately try again. She floated on her tummy with her chin above the water the other day.

the pools

It was a gorgeous day on Sunday and the girls were itching to get wet so we filled up the little pool on the balcony. In the end, I took them to the real pool in the afternoon anyway. Both girls are wearing arm floats in the swimming pool but Arabella hasn't figured out that she needs to keep her head out of the water and her mouth shut. Every 5 minutes she's asking to go "pee pee" from all the water she swallows. She also jumps and propels herself in the water as if she thinks she's an Olympic swimmer already. She gets irritated I'm holding her and yet when I let go her little nose and mouth suck in another liter of pool water. Her fearlessness can be a bit unnerving around the water. On a number of occasions she's almost taken a step over the edge before I'm in the water to catch her. It should be a fun summer in the pool.