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Summer 2016. We graduated from the annual traditional small inflatable swimming pool, in which we all spent many hours of fun, to a large- and I mean large- giant, cool, pump-included, actually chlorinated swimming pool!
I love swimming. A lot. And so, very kindly, your wonderful Mommy, Yaya, and Baba (and you guys too!) got some gravel, leveled our covered sand-pit area and put together the pool for us as an early Father's Day present!
And it was such a glorious sight!
And what fun it has been!
Our first swim was pretty epic:
I impressed you all with my Olympic-style diving:
And then in you both go...
...and ... you were in the pool for the rest of the summer!
We splished and splashed. I sang songs like "we are the champions" as I threw you. You dove. We played 'whirlpool' and rode on the giant, yellow "gir-raft." You goggled up and dove for things on the bottom. We looked up and studied "horn nuts". We picked grapes and blackberries straight from the fines and snacked while we swam. We floated and went on journey. You learned how to play Marco Polo. We learned what "skunky" and "skinny dipping" meant. It. Was. Awesome.
We had lunches on the picnic table in the shade in between swims:
But it wasn't just the three of us in the pool! You had many co-swimmers, including Mommy, Yaya, Mimi, Pops, neighbors and friends!
Swim parties. Splashing Around. Floating and dreaming with your parents and grandparents. These are the elements of an endless, ethereal summer. The pool is still up and we hopefully will get a few more months out of it before it gets too cold to swim. School is starting soon, and for the first time, you both will be full-time students. I can't believe you're growing up so quickly. But we'll always have our pool, and our sweet summer- and as long as you want me to swim with you, I'll be by your sides.
