It's Summertime!

It is finally HOT here in Texas. For the last couple of weeks our weather kept teetertotting (sp?) between rainy, gross days and nice beautiful, sunny days, but it has finally made it's mind up...it is just plain hot and of course, humid. That means time to get in the pool! And Tristan and I did exactly just that this past week.

Well, first of all, let me give you an update about Tristan's cold, for those of you who don't know. I took Tristan to the doctor last Friday for a follow-up visit about his cold and the doc said his chest and breathing sounded much better, but he was beginning to develop a slight ear infection. More than likely the congestion just drained into his ears, so the doc put him on an antibiotic to clear it up. Luckily we caught it early, so Tristan didn't have any pain and wasn't even bothered by it. He will be on the antibiotics until this Sunday, but overall is feeling 100% better than 2 weeks ago.

So, since he was feeling better, I decided what better time to get in the pool and officially ring in summer. On Sunday, we went to Kaeson's first birthday party. For those of you who don't know, Kaeson is my friend Melissa's son, whom we hang out with quite often. His party was at Landa Park and the kids rode the train and hung out. Afterwards we went back to Melissa's house and got the kids in the pool...the water felt great! It was so refreshing.

On Tuesday Victor and I took Tristan to the zoo for a little bit, but it was so hot that a lot of the animals weren't out, so we left after about an hour or two. It definitely would have been nice to have a pool to go home to that day (hint, hint to Victor)! Along came Wednesday and I was still hot from Tuesday, so we met up with my friend Melanie and her daughter Ashley and went swimming in the pool at the YMCA. Ashley is taking swimming lessons there, so we hopped in for awhile before her lessons.

Speaking of swimming lessons, Tristan starts his "waterbabies" class on June 19th. It is just a 2 week introductory class for babies 6 months and older to get them used to the water and start drownproofing. Tristan will actually get to go under water for the first time...very exciting, but kind of scary too! I'm sure there are many moms reading this now and know that "babies have a natural reflex to hold their breath" (or at least that is what my Mom keeps saying), but is still kind of scary. I will be sure to post how that class session goes!

I think that's all that has been going on here...of course, I have pics posted below.