This Is GREAT...Unless I Fall In

Today we bring you a few pictures of a fun afternoon we had at the home of, now let me see if I have this right, Katy's grandma's cousin's granddaughter Cory (sp?), along with her husband Chris and daughter Addison, her mom Pat and dad (was it Ken?), her brother Ben and his wife Robin and daughter Andi (sp?), as well as Gary, Nell, Mickie, Jamie, Mandy and Ryan. Cory and Chris live here in Omaha, but the rest of their crew are up from the Baton Rouge area to cheer on LSU in the College World Series. Fortunately for them, LSU has made it to the championship best 2 of 3 which begins this coming Monday.

The first picture I'm sharing is when I first put Zac around the kiddie pool in the backyard that he, Mandy, Ryan and to a certain extent Jamie were really enjoying playing with. Not in the water, but just splashing it. See that gal off to the right in both pics? That's Robin, also known as "that person who saved Zac's life". Because...

In picture number two you can see the kids having fun splashing in the water. Zac decided at some point when it was pretty much just him at the pool to put his face in the water. He does this in the bath as well and has great fun with it. It was all fun and games until he got a little too excited and went, head first, into the little pool. I saw it happen and yet, before I had even taken a step, Robin had scooped Zac out of the water. We were impressed that as soon as he fell in, he rolled over on his back and got his face out of the water. Now, the look on his face, which obviously we did not capture in picture, was certainly one of a bit of fear, but he calmed down pretty quickly and even went back to the water a bit later to have fun splashing around. Good boy!

We had another life-saving moment as well this afternoon, this one by ME! As Jamie and Addison were on the swings, I was helping each of them get moving and holding Zac in one arm. Mandy wandered over from the slide area of the playset and right into the path of Addison, happily swinging away. Just as she was about to be whacked in the head by the swing, I put my hand in the way, which brushed Mandy away and kept the swing from hitting her in the head. Mandy, in what was an absolutely hilarious reaction, dropped to the ground as though she'd been felled by a bomb and lay there completely motionless until Nell came over to pick her up. You kind of had to be there to get the full effect, but just that image of Mandy taking the fall and not moving a muscle until her Nana came to get her was very, very funny!