Lincoln's First Swim

Yesterday was a beautiful day. Very warm outside, not hot though. But warm enough that Aaron and I decided it would be fun to get Lincoln dressed up in his swimming suit and take him for a little dip in the pool. The pool at our apartment is pretty cool because it has a very small, shallow pool at the top that has a mini-waterfall going into a second shallow pool, another mini-waterfall, and then the big pool. The shallow pools are perfect for little kids. Even Lincoln sized kids. They are both only slightly deeper than the bathwater we run for him at night. A lot colder though. But it's great because we don't have to hold him the whole time, and he can crawl around in there and wiggle all he wants without us worrying about him slipping out of our reach.

When we first set him in he seemed pretty ok with it. Then he started splashing and thought that was great fun! The next thing he tried was crawling around. Like I said, the water is a little deeper than he's used to and lots colder. I think it startled him a little when he tried to crawl around. For the longest time he just sat there on his hand and feet, with his cute little bum up in the air, looking around like, "what in the world?" But pretty soon he got used to it. We let him play until he got goose bumps, then we took him out. We dried him off in his yellow ducky towel. We all had a good time. Aaron and I need to invest in some swim diapers though, holy cow, I had no idea how fast a regular diaper could fill with water, or how much it could hold!