small things {ten steps}

small things #51 ... ten steps

Today is our final morning of swim lessons.  We've been thoroughly saturated, chlorinated and hydrated. In celebration of eight successful sessions of splashing, swimming and sloshing around, the kids have been jumping off the diving boards.

This is the first year that Ashley has enjoyed the diving boards without having to have a noodle tied under her armpits or and life jacket cinched around her shivering chest.

This is also the first year that she did this:

Ten steps up, deep breath - splash!