Pool Update

I love Memphis. It's June 1st and our pool is 92 degrees top to bottom! We are really enjoying it. Almost every time we open the cover 4-8 additional boys from the neighborhood appear. Some of the older boys have demonstrated lots of cool skills and games for our boys to imitate. On day 2 of swimming Cole and Talmage both jumped off the diving board and swam the length of the pool. I was holding that as a goal for them by the end of the summer. We have also enjoyed the couple of times we've had the pool all to ourselves. Tonight we swam just as a family. Over the course of the 2 1/2 hours, Cole over came his fear of the deep end and swam across it countless times. And Talmage mastered surface diving down to the drain cover at the bottom of the pool--9 feet down. We were so impressed. Then he began fetching Clint's soft dive weights from down there. He may be skinny but he's getting to be a strong swimmer and we're starting to see some muscles! Jack is the most daring jumper of all the boys. He's still wearing a floaty but I think he might discover soon he doesn't need it. Trace's job is to throw things into the pool and he takes it very seriously. At the end of the night Clint said, "Boys that was our family night." Cole said, "But we didn't do any church stuff." I said, "Here's the church stuff: Our family is forever, so we'd better like each other now." They agreed.