Water Baby

Clover is a true water baby who loves splashing around with the hose and in the pool. During a record high of 109, we spent an afternoon at her cousins house, where she spent much of the afternoon happily kicking around in their kiddie pool. Since we don't have AC and there was really no escaping the heat, I knew we had to get our own pool for the house. Unfortunately, everyone in Washington had already had this idea. After 2 hours of searching with no luck, I finally found a water play mat. It's smaller than what I was looking for, but it gets the job done and Clover seems to like it....at least for this summer. We'll upgrade next year :)

This first set of pictures of Clover playing in the hose happened while I was watering the plants one morning. It was so hot out that Clover was slipping out of my arms because we were both so sweaty. I sat her in the grass and laid the hose down to grab a few things and this is what happened. She entertained herself for 45 mintues and would have played longer but we were already late to meet a friend.

The next set of pictures are of Clover playing in the play mat I finally found at a little toy store in Gilman Village. She spends hours (broken up of course) playing in this most days. As you can see we started the first day in diapers, but after going through so many every time she uses it we decided to dich the diapers and go all natural.

She spent a while trying to figure out how this chair worked :)