My Little Tadpole

Despite my newfound low body image drummed up by a pornographic video Liesel managed to take of me with my cell phone (not a bloggable story, call me if you really want to know), I stuffed myself into a swimsuit Friday night and headed to the pool with my family. Liesel has been taking a Mommy/Nanny & Me swim class with Whitney this summer and recently has made some serious progress. We'd all had a tense few days and it was exactly what the family needed.

Before we even reached the pool, Liesel started kicking her legs and squealing. She was SO cute as she played with the beach balls and pushed Brent underwater. Liesel loved the slide and playing Humpty Dumpty. Whitney tells me she can sit Liesel on the edge of the pool and when she gets to "had a great fall" Liesel will push herself off the wall into the water. Sorry, but I think that's pretty dang cool. When Liesel gets really excited she just squeals and screams and there was plenty of that too. Sadly the family swim hours are changing from Friday to Thursday nights for the summer which is when we have our Addiction Recovery Group. With the swim lessons over, Whitney has promised to take Liesel to the beach to make up for it though.

As much as I love, love, LOVE Liesel's butterfly swimsuit with the fluttery straps and matching sunglasses, Gymboree has a new strawberry one. How freakishly adorable would my little strawberry blonde look in this? It's not only on sale, but an extra 30% off. Oh how tempting that is!!! But the pragmatic side of me says she already HAS a swimsuit, this one only goes up to 18-24 mo so by next year she'll have outgrown it. Even on sale I don't need to be spending money when we're paying off the last of the AZ house expenses. Truthfully, I'd much rather be debt free than almost anything in this whole world and this is a want, not a need. Not to mention the fact our landlord just notified us she's raising rent by $50. *huge dramatic sigh* I guess I'll just PICTURE her in it :)