the falls

We decided to go do something adventuresome and OUTSIDE this past weekend because the weather was amazing!! So saturday we packed everyone up and headed to breakfast then multnomah falls. Such a perfect morning.

ice cream treat at the end

Then on sunday we went over to "gwampa and gwampa's" aka Chuck and Lisa's for an awesome dinner and swimming. I really had no idea what to expect from her in the pool. She wasn't really into it last year and absolutely HATED the cute little floaty raft lisa had bought for her...so I went into it with zero expectation. Sometimes that just has to be my motto with her. Then I am delightfully surprised when she's a rock star the next time. Just being honest.

So...she LOVED the pool. She was slightly timid (for like 5 seconds) and then quickly realized how fun jumping in and swimming "by myself" was. We put the floaty wings on and she was off. She must have jumped off the edge 100x. Then she got really daring and wanted to jump off to no one's arms- seriously, she thought it would be cool if she jumped "by myself" into the pool without anyone there to get her. Insert giant sigh and eye roll here :) She was so excited every time we would let go of her that she would start hyperventilating and then suck a bunch of water in. We made up a code word "mom" that she would yell when she was ready for us to put our hands back on her. She got such a thrill out of floating without anyone touching her, but then she would get water in her mouth or start to tip and had trouble expressing herself, so finally she just started shouting "mom!" when she was ready to be grabbed again.
We were out swimming for well over and hour and she's been talking about it ever since. Here's hoping the sun comes back again. Great memories made last weekend.