Swimming with Herman!

OH.MY.GOODNESS.  Hardin loves loves LOVES the pool.  Yesterday I got home from work really early and daddy was about to go work out.  He suggested I come with, and take Hardin to the indoor pool that just opened at the Y.  I honestly have never seen the boy so happy for so long.  He laughed, he squealed, he splashed... and laughed some more.  He grinned ear to ear at every person that told him he was cute.  It was adorable.  When I would walk up and down the lane he would kick and paddle and dive his face in the water.  He really had it goin' on.  Not to mention how cute he looked in his reusable swim diaper from Mimi, I love how old school it looks! 

A lady was watching her kids swim and asked if I happened to have a camera because I had told her it was his first time.  For the first time in years, allowed someone to photograph me in my bathing suit.  You know I must really want to remember this day, because there aint no way I'd post pictures of me even holding a bathing suit any other time.  I also ran extra hard today on my C25K program.  I'm on week two, it has been good so far.

H was also the biggest hit with all the kids in the pool.  One little boy in particular took a liking to him and followed us around the entire time.  When he asked what his name was I told him Hardin, and he said "Awe... Herman, that's so cute!"  Every time he said Herman, I politely said "It's actually Hardin."  I might as well have been talking to the moon, because that boy was dead set on Herman.  I look forward to running into him a lot this summer at the Y.

Finally, the picture below is big for two reasons.  One, my mom texted it to me from her phone today after she set it up.  Anyone who knows mom knows this is a huge technological advance.  Second, I have crossed the line and now have one of those houses.  You know, the kind I feared.  The kind that houses an inflatable crab pool filled with 100 balls.  Needless to say it was a gift.  I'll keep you posted on how many days I can tolerate it.