My dad's dad (pawpaw) had his 80th birthday party last Saturday. He wanted to hold Korbyn and the poor thing had just woken up so she was like a deer in the headlights!
These are all of the great grand kids. They range from 14 to 7 months! And the amazing thing is they all get along and play with each other so great. And it was really nice because everyone in our family on that side was there! Except my mom!!! She never misses things like this but it just so happened that it was her turn to volunteer at the hall that she's a member of, they had a wedding or something going on. And she could hardly find any other member to help her out let alone take over for her. I know she wanted to be there because she loves being around when all the family gets together like this and she asked me to take lots of pictures, well of course I forgot my phone (pretty much my camera) so I just used Colton's.
This was also Korbyn's first time to swim! We came dressed for the pool but then didn't get in until later because we were taking pictures and eating and socializing :) We bought this $2 float at Walmart and it said 0-6 months so I was thinking this would be perfect, well I don't know what 0-6 month old can sit in that thing! It has two holes for her legs to go through but it's so long that it would fold up and then if I just set her in it it the front end would come up if I didn't have her right up front, so I just threw the float out of the pool and put her on my hip...so much better.
This was right when we got in. I even gave my nieces and nephews a little speech about how this is her first time in the water and don't be too crazy around her because I don't want her to be scared of it right off the bat and then never want to get back in. They were all "ok!" well they couldn't help themselves, they absolutely adore her and as soon as we even got close to the water they were surrounding us! I didn't care, I'm not going to scold them for wanting to be next to her.
In the picture she looks absolutely mortified! But when I took her out of the float and put her on me she was a lot more relaxed. Everybody was just waiting to see what her reaction was going to be. At first she was like "what the hell is this!" but then she got warmed up and LOVED it!!! Her legs were kicking the entire time I was holding her and even my nephews were jumping in about 5 feet from us and getting us totally soaked and she would just laugh with water all over her face! I was so nervous that she was going to cry and get really nervous about it and want to get out, but I should have known this little girl would love it. She probably would have just laughed if I had let her go under the water for a split second, but mommy was too nervous for that :) So now we're ready to swim! Which is perfect because cousin Avery has her birthday party coming up this weekend and it's a pool party...yay!
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