How I Spent My Summer Vacation...Part 1

** Update ** We gave Colton a bath tonight with almost no screaming. Yippee! This is what worked tonight: moved locales to our bath tub and used an inflatable tub. He still didn't love getting his hair washed, but at least he sat down in the bath and splashed a little bit.**

Colton and I spent a lot of time at the neighborhood pool this summer. The kid doesn't like baths, but loves pools and splashing in any type of water. Go figure! He enjoyed being in the water, but REALLY loved crawling/walking around the edge of the pool and keeping his mom on her toes. I heard a friend say this was her first summer to "sit" by the pool in 8 years. Yikes! No more reading by the pool for me.


Here's Colton checking out the drain. This was in early June before he started walking.
Sitting by the edge of the pool.
Keeping our cool. He kept this hat on for roughly 15 sec. Just enough time to snap a pic. He'll love this picture in 15 years :) Don't love the pic. of me but I'm happy to report that was early June and I am now 10 lbs lighter :) It's called the "Colton started walking" diet. It really works! Here are the details if you want to try it for yourself.

• Lift 25 pound weight 20-50 times throughout the day.
• At least 10 times a day do deep knee bends to pick up dropped sippy cups, pacifiers, loveys, etc. all while holding 25 pound weight.
• Oh and make sure the weight is a very squirmy, active toddler with the strength of 4 babies when he wants to get down.
• Start to make my lunch, only to forget what I was doing in the middle and forget to eat again until baby is in bed.
• Go on 2-3 walks per day pushing 25 pound weight in stroller stopping at park to chase toddler around.
• Play "human trampoline" and "airplane" in the afternoons.
• Run around house to play "chase" numerous times throughout the day.
• Play "steamroll" baby because it makes him laugh so hard.
• Dance to "Toddler Tunes" because it makes him laugh even harder. Mommy never said she had rhythm.
• So that's the "Colton" diet in a nutshell. He's available for 12 hour trial periods if you want to see results fast :)

Jazmin, Jenilee and Javi were our fun swim buddies this summer! Unfortunately, these are some of the only pictures we got of our swim outings. For some reason we were a little too busy to get pictures. Our favorite outing was to a place called Surf -n- Swim. It had a wave pool with a zero entrance - perfect for toddlers. They also had a little spray park.
Swimming buddies!