Waverly pool

The next step up from a purple pool at home is the Waverly city pool.  It is located between the "castle park" and the fairgrounds only 5 blocks from our house.  Along with two slides and a diving board in the big pool, Waverly has an awesome baby pool with zero-entry and a cool alligator tethered to the bottom for climbing on.  We made our first of many trips there today.  Our Denver playgroup met us there, too.  It was the perfect pool day, therefore it was PACKED!  I was really curious how Emily would react since this would be her first time in any kind of public pool.  I was slightly surprised and incredibly relieved to discover that she LOVED it!  I didn't even have our stuff set down and sandels off before she was in the middle of all the kids jumping around and making new friends.  She even tried sticking her face in the water a couple times.  She has to work on keeping her mouth closed. ;o) 

We did take one quick trip to the big pool while the other moms watched Lincoln.  Emily had on her fancy pink arm floties.  However, as soon as she figured out she wouldn't be able to touch the bottom with her feet she wanted to go back to the baby pool.  I'm just fine with that for now.  It's better than her always begging to go in the big pool and trying to manage two of them by myself.  I was also extremely relieved that we didn't have any accidents in the pool.  Emily had three productive trips to the bathroom during the 1.5 hours we were there, so we spent some quality time in the bath house trying to hike up a wet swimming suit (I'm now totally okay with it being a little big for her), but it was way better than the alternative!!

Lincoln did great, too, especially since his nap schedule was totally off for the day and he should have been very tired.  Of course, he was mostly interested in climbing in and out and standing along the chain-link fence watching all the kids in the big pool. :o)