"Water, outside, pool, swim..."

"Water, outside, pool, swim, water, outside, pool, swim." That is what is what we hear every day from Parker. It turns out we have quite the little swimmer on our hands. Parker LOVES going to the pool in our neighborhood, and is getting more and more brave every time we go. He was insisting that he swim by himself without assistance from anyone, so I decided it was time to try the little arm floaties. I was a little hesitant that he would be too young for them, but they worked great! He can now swim (short distances of course) around the pool without me holding him. He also loves to jump into the water by himself...over, and over and over! If I try and help him do anything these days he tells me "No, Karker do it." (He pronoucnes his name Karker instead of Parker).

One funny pool story. We were at the pool with my friend Mindy and her little boy Jake. All of the sudden Parker started pointing and saying "Fish, Fish." I looked over and the lifegaurd had a bag of goldfish crackers sitting next to his chair. I told Parker that those were not his fish, and we proceeded to swim. A few minutes later Parker got out of the pool, and I just assumed he was going to the side to jump in. Well, I was wrong. He grabbed the lifeguards goldfish and took off running! I had to jump out of the pool to chase him and the fish down. Luckily the lifeguard was just laughing and said "He can have some if he wants." We gave the lifeguard back his fish, and luckily Mindy had some fish with her that Parker could eat :)

The pictures below are from the little pool in our backyard. I keep forgetting to take my camera to the big pool to take pictures of him swimming in his floaties, but once I remember I will post those. He loves playing in the pool in the backyard b/c it is the perfect size for him to splash around and just act crazy! Oh- and one more thing. As you can tell from the last picture, he DOES NOT like any type of sprinklers. We have tried and tried, but he just cries everytime we turn them on and says "No, No, off, off." The only thing we can figure is that he does not like having the water in his face like that? Then again, he will jump into the pool and go under, so who knows!?!?! All I know is the he wakes up asking for "water, outside, pool, swim," and he goes to bed asking for "water, outside, pool, swim!"