One blog...

just won't do justice to what we have been doing today. I know that I sometimes see pages who have posted more than one blog in a day and I just think..."what, you have nothing better to do than post to your blog? Come on!" But, now I will join the ranks of the 'super posters' today. We took Ryan swimming for the first time today at granny's house. It was an event, to say the least. We got her in her cute purple polka dot swimsuit and Joe and grandpa worked through her tears to put sunblock on her. Then we put on her brand new life jacket and headed to the pool. She was screaming LOTS in the beginning and eventually we realized the problem: it was the life jacket, duh. Why didn't we think of that before? She doesn't care about safety at this time, she knows that I am super over-protective and would do anything to keep her head above water, nothing is gonna happen to her. Nothing. It is nice and once she gets used to the water it will come in handy but today was not that day. I think she felt a little smothered by the puffiness of the vest and it was too much for her. Yeah, we took it off and had Joe just hold her in the pool and things settled down. Ryan even started swimming "on her own" in a manner of speaking.

I did video her crying and I just couldn't keep it and post it for the whole blog community to see, it was so pitiful that I just can't do that. The first reason is that I don't want y'all to think she was being tortured when clearly she wasn't and the second reason is that I do plan to take her swimming again and I know we will go through the same tearful routine so its not like you are missing out on anything.

I would like to post a total of about three videos but I don't know how many I can attach to one post. Therefore, I wil formally induct myself into the 'super posters' society. Here goes video #1, this is when she is trying to get used to the jacket and is not really crying, but still not really liking it. I would say ENJOY, but you can just judge for yourself.