First trip to the pool - 2010

We spent the afternoon at the Dyersville Pool today.....Kelly and Isabella had a blast! Molly warmed up a little bit....but we still have a long way to go with Molly and large bodies of water (river, pools, lakes). We've decided that by the END of our 7 day vacation on the lake this summer....she might start to like the water! So here's how today went....

Kelly is a pool rat! She LOVES the water and doesn't EVER want to get out!!!!!
She loved every aspect of the pool today......floating in her tube, jumping in, playing under the mushroom, playing in the jumping waters, and EXPECIALLY THE WATER SLIDE!!!

Kelly and Isabella hanging out in their tubes.

Molly, on the other hand, cried when I took her in the water. I have scratches all over my chest and back from her death grip holding onto me. We walked into the water and before it even touched her toes, she CRIED! We stayed in for about 10 minutes before I decided this wasn't going to work the best today!!!! Molly was happy watching Kelly and Isabella from the comfort of her towel while munching on goldfish!

Back to Isabella and Kelly.....they were sitting like this every hour when they cleared the pool.....waiting to get back in!!!!!!!

Molly was ok just walking on the pool deck!

So, I called Grandma and Papa Snyder to see if they wanted to sit at the park with Molly for 30 minutes so I could take Kelly down the water slide (because she wasn't tall enough to go by herself). Molly enjoyed playing at the park with Grandma and Grandpa.

After about 2.5 hours I finally got Molly to sit with me on the edge of the pool......and she started splashing with her feet.....

....and her hands too!!!!!

" YEAH!!! This water isn't so bad after all!!!!"

We have a long way to go, but baby steps happened today! Molly sat on the edge of the pool in the deep end for almost 2 hours as Kelly was able to go down the water slide by herself as long as I caught her at the bottom. Molly was ok just sitting and watching her big sister and cousin....clapping for them everytime! Between the 12 times I went down the slide with Kelly and the 30+ times she went down by herself.....we had a sleeping daughter at 6:15pm!