Bonus Post!

We now interrupt your regularly scheduled month of Photo-of-the-Day posts during our moving and renovations and general big life transitions for a real ACTUAL post. 

BIG NEWS here you guys!

Connor and Lex know how to swim!

By themselves!

Without floatation devices!

We have lived in Texas for a little more than a month now, with access to a pool at both our apartment and our new house, and we have been swimming just about every day that the sun was shining, and even on some days when it wasn't and we had to get out of the pool real quick like when the lightning and thunder started all of the sudden.

And during that month, they finally got comfortable in the water.  But they used their Puddle Jumpers just about every day.  Connor wanted to swim without his in the pool at the apartment after a while, but he was tall enough to touch the bottom of that pool.  Once we were at the new house and the pool was too deep, he went back to the Puddle Jumper. 

And then I bought some pool noodles.

Sidebar:  See how casual that sounds?  "And then I bought some pool noodles."  It wasn't really like that at all.  I looked for pool noodles EVERYWHERE for about a week.  I checked at Target and Walmart, and they weren't at Home Depot or Lowes or the place where we bought our flooring from either.  Nor did I find any at Scholotsky's, and those are really all the places I know how to get to without asking Siri for help.  But last night we went to dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings because Kevin bought me a new induction cook top and it came without the manual and I didn't know how to use it and I was too hungry to figure it out between the time that it was installed and dinner.  And when we pulled into the parking lot at BW3, I saw them!  Dozens of them sitting out in front of the Dollar Tree a few stores down from the restaurant. End Sidebar.

So today we got into the water without their Puddle Jumpers (or they just call them floaties), and they used the noodles for a bit.

Then, I got this idea that I could hold the noodle out in front of them and have them swim from the steps to the noodle.  And by Jove, they could!  Next thing I knew they were swimming from one side of the pool to the other all by themselves.  (We are talking about the shorter distance from side to side of our rectangular pool, but still.  Swimming!)

I'll try to get some videos tomorrow. 

Let the Official Record read as follows:

On this, the 13th day of August, 2013, during the hour between 2 and 3 pm Central time, Connor and Lex learned how to swim.  Witness:  Mommy.