Living in Putin's Backyard ~ Our Adventures in Mother Russia: My Water Babies!

As challenging as this is with us being separated from Will while I finish out the rest of my pregnancy in the United States (5 more weeks), we have been keeping busy and trying to find normalcy in a temporary place. Good thing is even though, we do not have Will, we have my fabulous in-laws and it really makes things easier. We have not seen them in so long and the kids are thrilled that Cici and Papa are so close!!!

So what do you do on these super hot days??? POOL TIME!!!!! These little ones are serious water babies now. Ash and Mike are swimming by themselves with no floats and doing so well. CJ FINALLY decided to get in the pool and he likes it!!

Mike loves that his brother is swimming, however, Mike finds it convenient to grab CJ every now and if he needs a break :-)

Then there is this one.... She can hold her breath for so long, dives down to the bottom, collects all her rings and rods. She is loving this so so much!

So many smiles!

CJ LOVES wearing his goggles and going under water to watch Mike and Ash. My other kids really never did this. Ash would go under water at 3 but was not using goggles or looking for things and Mike had a serious distaste for getting his face wet. They have come such a long way.

"Just Keep Swimming, Just Keep Swimming"

Ah yes.... The ENDLESS competition!!!! Everything is a race with these guys. If your not first, SO MANY TEARS!!! Race to the kickboard.... and go!

Got water in your nose kid?

Kids also had a 2 week swim camp in July. It was very beneficial for CJ when he would participate :-)

The first two days he did very well. He did have a set of negotiations that needed to be met before he got into the pool but he and the instructor came to a compromise and CJ got in. He was loving this!!