father's day

Poor Daddy was still pretty sick on Father's Day morning so he slept in, not only because it was *his* day but because he needed the rest. The girls promptly wished him a Happy Father's Day when he emerged (without any prompting from me!).

I love how Little Pie kisses with her forehead but makes the smacking sound with her lips.

After lunch, we headed to Brenda's for a celebration with some of the other fathers in our family. The girls were super excited because the day before I had told them that we were going to go SWIMMING. The weather, like every other day this summer, was not the best for swimming, but the pool was plenty warm!

Not surprising, Little Pie was ready to get in the pool the minute we got there. However, I was surprised that she clung to me with a death grip. The last time we went swimming she was jumping off the side and trying to get away from Daddy because she wanted to do it herself. I tried and tried and tried to get her to let go of my neck or my hands, but she was having none of it. She didn't want to get out of the pool, but she didn't want to do any "swimming" while in the pool. 

Notice her grip.

After a while, I gave up. Katie tried to get her to be a little more independent and was much more successful than I. It looks like Katie will be her new swimming buddy!

Little Bird on the other hand was her usual cautious self. It took about 45 minutes of coaxing from Nana and Erin to get her fully into the pool. After that she was a daredevil; willing to try anything and everything!

Little Bird is finally excited to be in the pool!

After being in the pool for awhile, both girls were super excited to try the SLIDE. They wanted to climb the steps and go all the way to the top to slide down, but I opted to have them start in the middle and have Daddy catch them. They LOVED it.





Of course we did more than swim, we had to play with Lobo too.

Lobo says please let me go back to my nap.

The girls were the official entertainment of the day!