The first day of fall!

It is the first day of fall and 73 degrees. Yesterday it was 80! When we moved here my dad thought it would get boring having the same weather every single day. We have lived here for a year now and so far I can say, no... no it does not get boring. 

Other people are probably getting bored listening to me talk about how much I love the weather down here... ;) 

Ted loved his little lambie! We learned a few months ago that lambie is in fact a girl so we refer to lambie as her and she. Sometimes Tyler, always the teaser, will take lambie and Ted says, "Hey that's my girl!" Which I think it so stinking adorable. 

Today on our half hour walk to check the mail Ted put lambie on the front of his bike. Knowing lambie would keep falling off I wrapped an elastic head back around her and the handle bars. It was her homemade seatbelt and Ted was thrilled. It was also ridiculously adorable. 

 Another activity we did for the first day of fall was go swimming!... Who am I kidding, we still go swimming everyday. It is crazy now though because all the kids are in school (awesome) and for some reason when the weather drops to the low 70s people stop going swimming... it is just too cold. Not for us though.

I am posting about us swimming today because TED SWAM ACROSS THE HOT TUB! Let me give a bit more details... we usually start swimming in the pool and then we move to the hot tub and then back to the pool (back and forth, back and forth). We do not turn the bubbles on in the hot tub so it is not super hot but still nice and warm. Ted has been practicing putting his head under water with his goggles lately and floating around. He does this right next to the hand rail so he can pull himself back above water. Today I was pointing out to him that if he start floating out into the middle of the pool just kick your legs and you will move the direction you want to go. He continued diving under water for quite a while and then he took off!

He pushed off the side of the hot tub and just started swimming! This was not floating around and drowning while trying to make it to the surface swimming. This was intentional kicking and paddling under water to get to the other side! I was like whaaaaa? I was holding Tidus at the time so I just walked along side Ted while he swam and let him do his thing and he made it! CRAZY! Our hot tub is a pretty big size so this was no small feat. He even swam around two more times! I could tell he was getting tired but man oh man was I impressed! I only wished I had my waterproof camera... next time ;)