This whole blog can be focused on water.Mercer took his first dip in a big pool at "Aunt" Renee's house up the street a couple of weekends ago. He liked it -- but we found out that he wanted to be very independent. A neighbor loaned us a baby float. He was fine in it for about 10 minutes, then tried to climb out. I held him for about 10 minutes, then he wanted down. Down where? In the water? He just wanted to get away from anything that was constraining him. I was almost tempted to let go and see what he'd do, but thought better of it!
We also took a boat ride on "Uncle" Orie's boat. He had fun driving the boat - or, while we were parked in a cove - rather - he got to play with the wheel. 
He did well on he boat - not afraid at all. He went last year around the same time, but he was just a baby then & probably doesn't remember that trip. 
The evening we went out was the weekend after the 4th of July and someone in the distance was shooting off fireworks. That was a nice addition to the pontoon boating trip. (Notice the most "nautical" shirt that Mercer is wearing?) : - )
We have a little blow-up pool for Mercer (in the shape of what else.... but a frog!) The water is only 6" deep but it's fun for him to get in and splash around in. Mostly, he enjoys the spout on the front. 
(He's been in it several times, but we finally got some recent pictures because Todd and I were both home at the same time while he was playing in it. Usually, we put him in the pool - but we're alone with him and can't snap any shots.) 
Here are some pics -- and you may notice these were taken after I cut about 2" of his hair off. No worries.... he still has plenty of hair, as you can see.Last Friday, I took him to a play date down the street and they had a pool that was about 1 1/2' tall. He could walk around in the pool and it was up to his chest. He was in the pool for about 10 - 15 minutes.... the whole time I was holding onto one of him arms. Several times, he would try to look down / bend over to pick something up in the bottom of the pool. I was able to pull him up before he would go under water. But, there were a couple of times where he wriggled his way out of my grasp and he went under. He looked scared -- maybe more startled? But he was ok. I don't think he loved it, but he didn't want to get out of the pool when I took him out, so I thought he was ok with it overall. Hmmm....maybe not?
The final water-related activity we participated in was to take him to a swim lesson the next day. As much as he loved the water in the other pools, he really didn't like this experience. He clung to either Todd or myself in the pool for the first 20 minutes of the 30 minute lesson. We went for a free 1/2 hour trial at a place called Aqua-Tots. It was an indoor pool and there were tons of kids in there. We were thinking that the acoustics must have really freaked him out? The kids there were laughing and screaming and playing. But, it may have sounded like a frightful type of screaming as it was bouncing off of the ceiling, walls, and water. Who knows?
We did sign him up for a 10 week session, however, because we do want him to learn some techniques in the water and grow comfortable with it (because of the pond in the back yard).
We had a low-key weekend last weekend and have the same in store for this weekend... which is good. Todd's been doing a lot of work on the house wrapping up some unfinished projects. One final water-related pic up at the square. He's trying to figure out how to scale the wall and hop into the fountain... right? Mercer has done some GREAT things the past week. I'll report about those on the next blog. (cliff hanger)
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