Beating the Heat, Poolside

It's pretty tough to beat the heat when you don't have central AC, but we're sure trying! I bought Finley a kiddie pool a month ago when he showed us he could sit up on his own, but for one reason or another we had yet to try it out. Hot days are often followed by thunderstorms around here so my pooling plans have often foiled by rain, but not yesterday (it didn't rain until after bedtime)!

Dan filled up the pool earlier in the day and pushed it into the sun so the water would be a good temperature and we decided that putting Finley in just a swim diaper was perfect, then we dropped him in. Since a kiddie pool is closer to a tub than a full sized swimming pool, the little guy was happy as a clam!

But he soon realized he could scoot himself to the edge and then he tried to get out!

He was easily persuaded to get back in though as he really loves having water poured on him from our watering can.

Finley was quickly turning into a prune, so Dan decided to introduce him to the backstroke before it was time to get out.

I think he had more fun than his facial expression is showing here :) Hopefully we'll get back in the pool this afternoon because it was quite refreshing for all of us!