she did what?

our little bella is a determined girl.

she knows what she wants.

up until this summer, what she wanted was to sit on the step of the pool and splash.

she did NOT want to get into the actual water portion of the pool.

then this year, she discovered the floatie

  (see this post for pic... super cute :)

she has been happily floating around the entire pool, kicking her little feet.

but do NOT try to put her under and get her to actually swim.

if you do... watch out because you will get kicked/poked/scratched/hit/and screamed at until you have hearing loss.

i am so not exaggerating.  this happened to me just last week.

so imagine my surprise when we went to the pool on tuesday 

and bella said, "daddy, can i swim to you?"

um, what?

OF COURSE!

then that little stinker just leaped off the top step, kicked her legs, and swam to daddy.

and then wanted to do it over, and over, and over.

and guess who didn't have her camera?

since tuesday, bella has been begging to swim again.

we took her back this morning.

looks like we have another swimmer on our hands.

ready to swim, daddy!

here i go!

kicking those little feet.

she hasn't quite figured out how to move her arms yet, though.

 i did it!

 she is SO proud of herself and has been telling everyone she meets that she's a big swimmer.

but wait!

there's more!

we asked her if she'd like to try and jump off the side to daddy.

she said okay.

a bit nervously tried one time, 

and then.....

wanted to do it all by herself 

over, and over, and over.

what a big girl.

 

here's a little video of her jumping in.

(please ignore the camp games in the background and my super-loud and obnoxious sounding voice.  

seriously.. do you ever hear your voice and think, "i should never speak again?")

and if all that didn't make you smile

(in which case, you must be having a really bad day)

i thought i'd leave you with this little piece of sunshine

i love that cheesy, mater smile :)