Back on the 4th, and again this past weekend, Kelley got her feet wet with swimming - more than just paddling in the dog bowl and the bathtub.




At Jennise's pool.




At Vince and Shay's pool.



In both cases, she's proved hesitant to enjoy the experience, however she has taken to actually putting her mouth in the water and blowing burble sounds. We've encouraged this to the point where she's doing it in the bathtub, which makes for some highly amusing sounds.

Our weekend trip up to Clover to visit Vince and Shay and crew passed quickly, as it always does with good company. Unfortunately the drive up on Friday took about two hours longer than usual, becuse of traffic jams caused by brushfires and construction.

Still, we played a fair number of games, hung out, enjoyed Vince's many Mexican dishes - breakfast, lunch, and dinner! - and spent some time in the pool. His combination of Mike's Hard Lemonade with added tequila about did me in on Saturday night.

The dogs accompanied us this time, riding on either side of Baby in the Meeplemobile's longest trip yet. And XM radio provided uninterrupted music and comedy the whole way, just as we hoped it would. On the way back, we tried the Jack In the Box orange-cream milkshakes: delish!



I place the recent lacunae of journal posts on being rather busy with baby entertaining, watching videos about bugs, writing my part of the best practices guide for QuickTime VR, being super busy at work developing an online application process, preparing for England, and of course playing Warcraft.