This time last year...

 Here's my post from a year ago today:

predictability runs high this week (7.9.07)

So here's how things seem to be going now: Get up, run/walk, go swimming, go eat, take a nap, get up, run/walk, go swimming, eat, go to bed (repeat). Oh well, it's great being able to relax with Emily this summer! Our biggest concern lately has been trying to get her to swim by herself (with all of her floaties attached, of course), but she just isn't having it. We went through the same kind of struggle with potty training, and when we finally let her do things on her own time schedule, it worked out fine, and was a lot less stressful/painful. I'm thinking the same technique would be best with the swimming thing. While it's hard to see her go from loving to swim by herself (last year) to being terrified, it also seems to follow the trend lately of her being scared of a lot of things. As my mind keeps telling me, let her be her... :)
Other exciting things that may happen today involve the pest control people spraying the house today, me calling into work for a bit, and I may even mow our lawn today! Fun fun fun!

So, let me see what's different this year... Get up run/walk [check], go swimming [check], go eat [check], take a nap [check], get up run/walk [guess not that much this summer], eat [check], go to bed [check].  Trying to get Emily to swim by herself with her floaties, that sounds familiar, for at least the first few weeks of this summer.  Now she loves getting in, swimming around by herself, and going under.  I've managed to get her to jump from the second step into the water, I'm working my way up to the side of the pool.

Right now she's so proud of herself being able to go under the water, that's all she does now as soon as she gets in the pool, for about a half hour.  "Watch, daddy, watch! One..Two...Three [huge breath in, eyes go from six feet diameter to locked shut]!" and she lowers her head into the water, usually just above ear level.  A few times she'll go all the way under and come up, gasp a little, wipe all the water from her face, and then yell at the top of her lungs, "I went ALL THE WAY UNDER DADDY!"

Potty training, that's really funny to read a year later.  Obviously we were talking about just pee pee, not even considering pooping at this time last year.  Funny how we were still working on potty training a year later, but mission accomplished!  She's a potty poopin machine!

For those of you interested, it's a hard life with this much unpredictability.  Moment to moment, day to day, year to year, you just don't know what's going to sneak up on you.  I mean, just now I realized that I need to mow this morning.  Oh, did that a year ago today too.  Oh well, I better hurry and mow so I can watch my programs :)