ruby and ava

yesterday, my friend nicole and i decided to get together and take our girls down to the local jr. high pool to let them splash around. the jr. high by our house has a zero-depth entry pool which is absolutely perfect for the little ones, so we decided we'd go check it out. ava and ruby loved it. as you can tell from the following picture, they played together so well... hee, hee.

ava awoke a bit grumpy from her nap, so when we got there she needed a little warm-up time. once she was in the water she was much happier. ruby was so unrestrained and kept trying to "swim" to the deeper waters. multiple times she would wander out to a deeper part and slowly sink into the water until she was completely underwater. she kept scaring me and i kept diving to "save her life", nicole was much more used to her brave daughter and she would calmly wander over and scoop her out of the water. mom always knows best, because she was just fine every time we pulled her out from the water, she is so good at holding her breath and not choking on the water. she had no reservations and continued to scare me with her underwater tricks.

ava, enjoyed splashing but wasn't as excited as i thought she would be. maybe it was because of her grumpy awakening, or the fact that i wanted her to be excited. she always seems to react the complete opposite as i expect in everything. i was able to snap one picture of her smiling... proof that she did have fun.

while the girls splashed around, nicole and i tried to have a conversation between our chasing of kids and over the loud waterfall beside us. it was nice to get out of the house and have some fun company with me. poor ava's face was getting so red from the heat. she refused to wear her once beloved hat, so her poor head was getting so hot! although, i slathered plenty of sunscreen on her, she started to look as if she were getting burned, so we went home.

once she got cooled off, the pinkness wore off and i realized that it really was just the heat that was turning her so red. i would've felt so bad if i hadn't protected her with plenty of sunscreen. my poor fair skinned baby. she's lighter than all of my friends kids... how is that possible??
anyways, we had lots of fun and can't wait to play with ruby and nicole again! thanks for the fun play date, nicole! let's do it again soon!