Samantha : Water Bravery

Our friends, Lori and Nate, invited us to go to their neighborhood pool today, which is awesome and has a great kiddie area that is very shallow and has many sprinklers, so I packed up our stuff and we headed out. Sammie didn't mind sitting in the shallow water, which was cold, and was even steady through the mist from the sprinklers, which was even colder- brrr! But I still decided to pick her up and walk around a bit in the sprinkler area where she didn't seem to get phased by the thrashing water in some spots, the water here is about foot and a half deep. I would say that she seemed very nonchalant about the whole experience. After a little bit, she started to get tired or bored or cold, I'm not sure, but she was fussy, so since Nate wanted to go in the big pool, Lori took him over but we stayed. I promised Daddy that I wouldn't take Sammie in the deep water of the big pool since he wants to take her himself. Lori said that the big pool was warm- like bath water- even in the shallow part, so we had to check it out. It was great! Sammie LOVED it! We sat in the shallow section (about 6 inches deep) where she splish-splashed and once she got comfortable, started crawling through the pool (along the shallow part, head out of water of course). She wanted to crawl to where it started to get deeper, but I kept picking her up... she's just going to have to wait for Daddy. She also loved watching the the lifeguards as they rotated through.... I'm guessing she'll have a lifeguard summer job when she gets older- hee hee hee
During bath, I made sure to get all the sun block out of her hair. Lately, she's been fighting against leaning back to wash the shampoo out, so since she's been brave with all the water today, I didn't fight her back. I tried to stop some of the water from getting in her face, but dumped it on her head to get the soap out. She wiped her eyes and went about playing. I hope this water bravery stays!