Fun in the Sun, part 3

What do you mean, there's a PART 3 to "Fun in the Sun"?  Yes, my friends, Yes, you betcha!

Sunday was an absolutely gorgeous day in the 80s, so after a relaxing morning in the condo (and napped Nathan), we headed down to the pool and rented a cabana for the very last time on our vacation.

After picking up little nuts (yet again), I got Nathan warmed up to swimming in the big pool.  He ended up loving it and became quite the swimming little fish.  I was SO elated!!

We walked back and forth on the little ledge, Nathan repeated after me "walk - slow" with each step he took.  It was SO cute!  He enjoyed giving mommy a surprise attack of splashes any chance he could.  He thought it was so funny to see Mommy get "all wet" as he would say.

 Not long after practicing walking along the bench in the water, Nathan was ready and more than willing to go for a swim!  I held him at his body/arm pits and he kicked back his legs and kept kicking to swim through the water.  He would point to where he want to go and I would swim him there.  He had fun at the water spouts splashing and hitting the water.  It made me SO overjoyed and happy to see him comfortable in the water and having so much fun!

After swimming, it was time for some fruit snacks, juice and a little cartoons!

Can you see how great it was to rent the cabana?  It really gave us some nice shade, privacy, and way more comfortable furniture than plain ol' beach loungers.

Nathan had fun opening and closing the cabana 'doors'.

 

throwing more rocks

I love him in his UV swim trunks and shirt!

no clue, being goofy!

For our last full day of fun at the resort, we made Sunday a very fun and relaxing day!  I just hope and pray that Nathan will enjoy swimming this summer.  I am taking him to the free swim day at Swimtastic in a few weeks, so we'll see what kind of deal they give us to enroll and maybe we can use a little Christmas money on that for Nathan.  I just really want him to grow up feeling comfortable and confident in the water because I am not.  No, we don't own any big fancy pool in our backyard, but as Nathan grows up and has school friends, they may have a pool, and we do all live on a big huge lake.  Even though I will never own a boat, who knows if one of his friend's family's will own a boat.  It's likely, so I really want him to learn how to swim young and have that as something he can grow on in life as he grows.  Awe, my baby, is growing, I'm admitting it.  <3 LOVE <3

Roxanne:)

Fun in the Sun, part 2

I am going to update the rest of our vacation, then I will work on a post about Tom's update from today, Tuesday Feb 2nd.

On Friday afternoon, we rented a cabana by the big pool on our side of the resort (West Village).  What a fancy and comfy cabana!  It was so great to have our own private spot, with shade, a fridge stocked with water and soda, cabinetry, a television, cookies, fruit.

plush!

Nathan eating fruit snacks...yum!

handsome boy.

He hated when I brought him into the water, but we did get him warmed up to the "big bath" aka hot tub.  It wasn't very hot temp, so I just splashed water on his feet as he stood outside of the hot tub, then held up water cupped in my hands that he slapped and splashed, and eventually he made his way in and loved it!

closing the cabana

Our digs

NUTS!  

Nathan found more nuts and had fun picking them up and throwing them into the bushes.

the pool view

eating PB&J watching "bob bob" (aka SpongeBob)

Friday was also Sasha's last day with us, and we were very sad to see her go home.  After she was gone, Nathan kept looking for her calling out her name.  He even pointed to her bed and said "Sasha, bed."  What a sweet boy, he loves his auntie!

After Nathan had gone to bed Friday night, T called my phone and invited us to experience Epcot on Saturday!  How amazing!!!  We were very much looking forward to checking out another Disney park, so plans were set time and place to meet.  Watch for the next post about our Epcot experience!  Nathan had a blast meeting his favorite Disney characters!!

With love,
Roxanne:)

Fun in the Sun, part 1

On Wednesday afternoon we rented a Cabana over at River Island (part of the resort we are staying at).  The pool area is a gigantic lazy river with larger outlets of 'pool' area.  Nathan didn't mind getting in the water with me until we went under one of the walk-way bridges and there was no 'safe' place to pass under  to miss the water falling from the spouts.  He didn't like that very much, but I told him we had to catch up to Daddy (who had started out ahead of us), so he kept saying "find dada, find dada" in a desperate tone of whining :)   About 3 or 4 bridges of falling water later, we caught up to Daddy.  It was fun and refreshing to get in the water, but we didn't go for another lazy river ride.  Tom and Sasha hangout in the hot tub for a bit while Nathan napped on me in a lounge chair.  After a short nap, we got dressed, hung out by the cabana, had snacks and Nathan had fun finding little nuts on the ground.  Here are some beautiful pictures to enjoy!

 Picking up nuts

 Checking out the nuts

 Look! nuts!

Love,
Roxanne:)