Swimming & Sand

Over the weekend we went to KY so that I could go to a bridal shower.  We were going to head down Friday, but we all had rough night on Thursday.  Evie has been doing fantastic sleeping in her big girl bed, but Thursday night she woke up crying.  I went in there and she was sitting up, her face cover in blood.  My heart skipped a beat, before I realized that she had gotten a nosebleed.  Once I got that under control, I had to clean Evie up, strip the entire bed, do a load of laundry and then get Evie settled into our bed because she flat out refused to go back to sleep by herself.  Needless to say, I was pretty tired the next day so I opted to not go to KY until Saturday.  

Evie was also sporting a swollen eye thanks to a bug bite and bumping her head on our bed.

We decided to take advantage of the warm weather and take Evie swimming on Saturday.  We haven’t been to a pool this entire summer so we weren’t sure how she’d do.  She loves her baby pool, but she’s hasn’t been swimming in a big pool since we went to Hilton Head a year ago.  We took her to G.G. Mitchell’s pool with Pops, G.G. and my Aunt Shawn.  Pops got in  with her right away – and she loved it!  She showed was jumping off the side and trying to float.  She loved the baby pool and being able to walk around too.  There were some older girls playing in the big pool and Evie wanted so much to do whatever they were doing.  They were playing a game called Jump and Twist and Evie told me that she needed to play Jump and Twist too and joined in their game.  Luckily they didn’t’ mind. J  Mitchell was angel and slept most of time.  We were so grateful to have Aunt Shawn and my grandma there to hold him so that Pops, Pat and I could play with Evie in the water.  Evie cannot wait to go swimming again.  It’s kind of bummer that summer is almost over and the pools are about to close!  We will definitely try and take her to an indoor pool this fall/winter.  

The rest of the weekend was spent just hanging out.  Evie got a kick out of playing with this kinetic  sand that my mom got.  That stuff is awesome!  You can play with it just like real sand, but there is no mess!  Mitch even stuck his feet in it. :)