Going down river again

We took the girls down (and back up) a short stretch of the Kentucky River again today. Mike's parents have a pontoon boat that we took out with his dad today. While we were going down the river, we realized that this is the first motorized boat ride (excluding the Ferry ride to Granny Nannie's house) that the girls have ever taken. We all enjoyed ourselves.

Kenna much preferred the amount of space offered on the pontoon compared to the canoe on our last trip. Actually, I think the real positive for her is that she has grown enough that the PFD doesn't force her chin up. She was crawling all over the boat and standing looking over the rail.

Morgan's favorite part was when we let her jump off of the back of the boat into the water. She is quite the swimmer, and we're doing everything we can to encourage it. We've been going to the pool at EKU at least once a week to let her swim in the big pool. She is very happy to go underwater to try to swim, she likes blowing bubbles, and she loves jumping off the wall. The biggest problem with the EKU swimming pool is the kiddie pool. When Morgan gets in there and "swims" she ends up putting her feet on the bottom which just encourages the "standing" swim instead of the belly position.

When she does the "standing" kick she just turns circles. Today in the river, she had her PFD on, so it was much more comfortable for her to be on her belly instead of upright. This really helped her get the hang of how to move forward in the water instead of spinning circles. She propelled herself several feet forward a couple of times today. Now, if we can just transfer that skill to the swimming pool without the PFD we'll be "golden" as Michael says.

Kenna also enjoyed swimming in the river. She floated around on her back for most of the time that we were jumping off the boat and swimming around. While doing so, she drank much more of the water than I would like to admit. She had a big smile on her face every time she turned her head to the side and the water just washed right into her mouth.

We had a camera (old style with film, smile) with us today. We actually got some pictures of this river adventure. I'll try to get them developed and scanned in to share here.