I have so much to write about! Carter finally took the plunge at the pool about a week and a half ago. Last year he wasn't afraid of the slide at the pool, but this year he wouldn't go near it.

I started to drag him into the deeper part of the baby pool a few weeks ago and he fought it like mad. For some reason, he suddenly decided to go down the slide and now loves being in the deep end. He goes down the slide over and over again and isn't afraid to dunk himself. Yippee!!! So much more fun at the pool now.

Athena is working on her swimming as well. Jesy has been giving her a few lessons this summer and it's slowly sinking in for her. She will aslo now dunk and will even dive down briefly to pick something up of the bottom of the kids pool.

Early this week, both kids were playing together upstairs when I heard Athena tell Carter to get his dumb ass out of her room. Umm, that's mine, I take full credit. I suppose it could have been worse.

We leave for vacation on the 11th, my birthday.

Nana and Granddad arrived on Monday night and are going with us. They are so fantastic with the kids playing tons with them and showering them with love.

Karen