My Little DareDevils

My boys amaze me every day!
Today, when I got home from work, Jackson, Cole and I went to the pool.  Dad headed to the golf course.   Jackson found some older kids to play with and went off with them to go off the board and play games in the deep end.  Cole and I stayed in the shallow end, but do not be deceived, we were getting very wet.  Cole's favorite things in the shallow end of the pool are the mushroom, and the carwash.  He loves getting his hair and face wet, and will stick his face in the water.  He just keeps walking as the water gets deeper until finally his face starts going under.  Only when he is as high on his tiptoes as he can go without going under does he finally reach for me.  Today, he was loving jumping off the side and going underwater. He would come up with this huge grin on his face.  Then, he started pointing to the slide-he has seen Jackson go down it a hundred times.  -I thought there is no way he is going to like it, because I can barely touch at the end of it, so we both would go under when we came out of the slide.  Up the stairs we went, and down the slide!  Cole LOVED it!!!  He was pointing to the top again before we were even out of the water.  We went down one more time, and he would have done it over and over.
I am so excited that he likes it-that both my boys are not afraid of the water and love going to the pool.
Yeah!
Something new Cole is doing recently is being able to identify his body parts.  Some of his favorites to point out are his nose, toes, feet, tummy, ears, tongue, and hair. 

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910