June 21, 2015

I love this little picture.  It captures her little spirit so perfectly.

We spent Sunday in Orange Beach at a condo with Chris and Carrie.  Chad and Mary (Chris’ brother and sister in-law) and Carla were at the condo too.  Selah June wore her new 9 mo. Carter’s outfit with matching neon yellow headband.  She was too cute for words.  Though all the adults wanted to hold her and squeeze her all up, she really only had interest in the kids.  And particularly she only had interest in Cody… Chris and Carrie’s nephew.  Cody is about 10, and Selah June wanted to crawl all over him.  Cody was a good sport.

The most exciting thing about our adventure to the condo was our time in the indoor pool.  Carrie and I took SJ and Carrigan inside to get away from the direct sun.  (NOTE: I did really well covering SJ in sunscreen.  She had no noticeable sun anywhere.  I was awfully proud of myself.)  SJ did pretty well sitting in my lap on the steps of the pool while Carrie and I visited.  Before too long, she started craning her neck around to see what was behind her.  So I turned her around to face away from me.  Within a minute or so she was leaning back into her float.  So I just went with it.  She would lean back into her float and then just grin and grin at me.  I kissed her on her forehead and praised her for such a good job!  And then it became a thing.  From sitting up to laying back into her float to grinning and waiting for a kiss from Mommy.  It was awesome.  I just hated that Jeremy missed such a priceless moment, a definite reassurance that swim lessons have been money well spent.