Hooray! The pool is open!

After a series of trips and adventures and maintenance problems with the pool, Charlie's Grandma and Grandpa finally got the pool open. The weather was perfect and the pool heater had kicked in to bring the temp up to a very comfortable 85ish degrees. Charlie, Michelle and I all slipped into our swimming suits, grabbed the point and shoot and took the plunge.

Here we see Charlie touching down into the water. He isn't quite sure about it at first but has his shovel as a handy tool if he needs it to bail the water out of the pool. He decided quickly that he realy would like to use his inflateable swim saucer.

Still not completely convinced yet not really panicing Charlie Started to warm up to the idea of floating along so long as he could still hold his trusty bailing shovel.

Ahhhhh! That feels great! I'm not real sure...

But I think that Charlie thinks Pool is spelled "P-P-O-O-L "

...Well with that out of the way...

Charlie really became quite comfortable in his first swimming experieince.

Unfortunatley he may have stayed in too long as his feet started to absorb water as you can see in this photo here.

Don't worry son... I'm sure your feet will wring out just fine!

Here we are 2 dudes from muscle beach drying off in the afternoon sun.

Charlie looks like he is ready to hit the pool again but I think he is still a little worried about his waterlogged feet. He's hiding them here in this picture.

I'm not sure he will be the next olympic superstar...

...but I do know that is one totally beyond cute photo of our little swimmer!

The End.

July update.

Finally!!!
Here are some pictures for everyone. Most of them are of our trip to Denver's 'Wildlife Experience' for my (mom's) birthday.
Dennis tried to get some video downloaded onto the blog but it isn't working... bummer. We will keep trying... we may even have to ask a computer savvy friend for help.

I would love for you to see how in a mere two weeks Charlie has learned to crawl, sit up on his own, pull himself up to standing, feed himself sweet potato puffs with his hands, etc. etc.
In other words... he is getting many bumps and bruises but we are preventing all that we can and we are there to kiss the 'owies' that slip though our fingers. He is learning at an unbelievable rate. If he keeps this up he might be a concert pianist by age 8... never mind that we don't have a piano.

Since we have to watch like hawks when Charlie is free to move we occasionally have to 'immobilize' him in one of two fabulous new toys. Charlie has a new exersauser and, even better, a swing. He loves 'hanging out' in the swing so much that he has even fallen asleep in it. So far we can move it to two different locations outside of the house and I'm working on a way to hook it up under the stairs in the living room.
A happy Charlie who can't do anything to injure himself is a precious thing indeed!

Charlie riding a wolf! Top that Kandace!!!!!!!


Charlie watching some fish (one of his favorite pasttimes).


Quick, veer to the left.


Charlie and his dad posing with a Steve Goodman original on display at the Wildlife Experience


In the swing.... see how happy!!!

Charlie standing and having a 'chat' with a very scary baboon.

These photos were taken during breakfast with Aunt Karen at Einsteins just before she left for Australia and New Zealand (he misses you Karen). The shirt says "Captain Adorable" in case any of you were wondering.