A day of Pooky Firsts

We went to the Lake today on a spur of the moment trip. Gary's customer flaked on him, so he ended up with the day off. This was our second trip out on the boat this year. In the past Pooky refuses to get into the water, even if I get in first and promise to hold on to her. On Father's Day she chilled in the boat with Daddy. But today she JUMPED in, swam all around and kept "chasing" the boat. It was the cutest thing. After our first swim stop, we got back into the boat and headed over toward the dam. Gary slowed the boat to no-wake speed and instead of staying on my lap, Pooky crawled into the front of the boat and did her best Titanic impression. She kept telling daddy that it was okay to go faster than "mommy and Pooky speed". On Father's Day we determined that mommy and Pooky are comfortable at a speed far slower than Daddy likes to go. After we ate a very late lunch by the dam we tooled back out to tow the raft. Now, Emily didn't go on the raft until she was 6 or 7, Jacob was 6 or so also. Pooky said she wanted to go on it, so we put her on and Gary was going to ride with her, but him getting on the raft kept freaking her out, so it ended up being a daddy solo ride. Now, I expected her to not want to try the raft again until next year at the earliest, she was very upset by the time I got her off the raft the first time. But I had the bright idea to get on the raft first, then have Gary put Pooky on and she was all happy! Daddy was given strict instructions to go at no-wake speed, no faster...and Pooky had a ball! We rode around for a short time, then I told her when I count to three we're going to let go....1-2-3 Let Go! and we giggled our way into the water. Em and I rode next and Gary said we looked hilarious cause we were laughing the entire time. By the end of the day, Pooky had not only swum in the lake, she had jumped in enthusiastically, rode on the raft and for the entire ride back to the dock, all three of us girls sat in the front of the boat and didn't freak out when daddy started going faster than "mommy/Pooky speed"

When we got home I decided to go to the grocery store, I got back from that at 8:30 pm, walked into the house to find Pooky asleep in my chair, Gary snoring in his chair and Emily asleep on the couch....I carried the girls to bed...Gary got kicked and told to go to bed :-)