Saturday, July 12, 2008

Our little fish...

I can't even go into how much Hunter loves the water and swimming. He would have done that all day if we would have let him. This top picture is Hunter standing on the steps falling back into the water.
Hunter couldn't get enough of Matt and his dad throwing Hunter into the air. The higher the better!

Hunter now will jump of the side of the pool in the shallow end by himself. The story of how this started cracked me up. Hunter and I were in the pool in the shallow end where Hunter could touch when a little boy his age with an orange cast walked over to the side of shallow end and jumped in by himself with no one to catch him. The past couple of days Hunter had been jumping off with Matt and I catching him. So after watching this boy, Hunter gets out of the pool and goes to the side to jump in like the boy. I see him doing this and I walk over to catch him. When Hunter got into the water the other little boy looks at Hunter and says matter of factly "I jump in by myself". Hunter looks at him and says "I jump in by myself too". I'm listening to this thinking, wait a second no he doesn't....then Hunter gets out and walks to the side and I walk over to catch him and he says, "no, mom I jump in by myself" as he is looking at the other kid. Well I think quickly to myself what can it hurt it is only 3 ft deep and he can touch and I am standing near by. I'm also thinking the other boy does have a cast and seems like a little dare devil, but not wanting to cramp Hunter's style in front of the other kid I let him jump by himself. He jumped and popped up and the look on his face was so priceless! He was so proud of himself and that he showed the other kid that he could do it. =)
It was nice that the pool was indoors and the pool was heated. There was also a hot tub that we didn't spend much time in.

2 comments:

Abby said...

Looks like a fun place! Also looks like Hunter is blessed to have a goofy daddy ;)

Dawn said...

I love the height he is getting off the toss. That is so cool.