Swimming and ................ pooping!

Here's another cute photo of Michaela in the bath. Mom just couldn't resist putting it in the blog!

Here's Michaela in one of her usual places - backed against the wall! Since Michaela is nearly crawling, but not quite, this is the usual outcome. She starts off sitting, then gets into a crawling position, maybe crawls backwards for a bit, then flops onto her belly. Sometimes she gets back into her crawling position and it all starts again.

On Monday, we went to Burra to see Auntie Laura and then later on, we went to Cunningsburgh for Grandad's birthday. Both places Michaela got to try out her new booster seat for eating. She seemed to do well in it, so Mom's glad she bought it. She seems to love taking off her socks at the moment and throwing things. Luckily she had her big cousin Eve around to play these games with her, as the games don't last very long when it's just Mom or Dad!

Last Wednesday was Michaela's second swimming lesson. I would say it went better than the first, although there was still a little bit of crying when she had to go on her back. But, horror of horrors, Michaela pooped while we were in the pool! So, we've found out that the swim nappy works - there were no messes in the pool. But, it turns out, the mess comes when you have to take the thing off! Michaela was covered in her poo from waist to feet as the water just helped it to spread. So now Mom is going to buy disposable swim nappies, so it can just be taken off easily, instead of having to get her legs out of the reuseable one.

After the success of the second swimming lesson, Mom and Michaela went with Michelle and Cerys to the Sandwick pool on Thursday afternoon. Well, the girls just loved it! So now we know the temperature of the water doesn't really bother her. And Sandwick was fantastic because it was fairly empty, so we could take our time and try out different things without bothering anyone else. But again, she pooped in the pool (and Mom still didn't have disposable swim nappies). So after that success, Mom and Dad took Michaela to Sandwick on Sunday. She wasn't as happy, but she was still pretty good in the pool - maybe it was too busy for her at the weekend? Anyway, this time Mom was armed with a disposable swim nappy. And guess what? No poops! Of course!