After work & daycare, we went to the swimming pool last night. Tyler looked so cute in his new swim trunks. By the end of last summer, he had spent many fun days playing in the wading pool. But back then he couldn't walk or even stand so for the most part, I just held him in the water and he loved every minute of it. For some reason I was thinking that's how yesterday would be. At first he was tripping out being in a 1-foot deep wading pool. He kept saying "Whoa!" and splashing up a storm. It was a while before he even tried walking in the water, but once he tried it we couldn't get him to hold still. He didn't seem to get the fact that between the slope of the pool and the resistance of the water, he had no balance. He just kept trying to walk all over the place, falling down with Mommy and Daddy right there to catch him. He got curious about putting his face in the water. Should we let him? Shawn and I asked each other. We thought maybe if we let him fall and get a face full of water he might understand the consequences of walking in water. We were too chicken to try it. We did give him a quick dip up to his nose, and he kept that mouth open wide and came up swallowing all that salty, high-chlorine water. In fact, it was so strong that I still smell like chlorine today. Tyler loved it though. I loved sitting in the water too, even though it was just a foot deep. Shawn was on chasing duty because Tyler eventually found that it was just as fun to run around the pool as it was to play in it. We are trying to teach him to hold hands but he only does it when he wants to. If he doesn't want to, he has a meltdown and throws himself to the ground. Not a good thing when he's wearing shorts. Every day this week he has come home from daycare with a new scratch on his knees from falling down while wearing shorts. I felt so badly about this that on Wednesday I sent him to school in pants. But they changed him into shorts saying he was too hot. Ok I guess I should start getting used to seeing those knees scratched and bruised. He is a boy afterall.