beach weekend!

we had a great visit with nanny and pop-pop this past weekend at the beach. the girls are truly "in their element" when near any kind of water (see previous post) but the beach or pool brings them to a whole new level. at a mere 3 years old, miss maya johnson is diving into the waves and trying to ride them in. she loves every minute of the waves even though a few hours after we left there were warnings of severe rip tides due to hurricane dean. go figure. at the pool in the afternoons, maya mastered swimming without her floatie and can successfully somersault frontwards and backwards! onlookers could not believe she is only 3. crazy child! it's kind of nice to see some sort of payoff after watching her try to drown herself for the past 3 years... which brings me to ava. miss ava sees what her big sister is doing and since we are very into the copycat game, she thinks she can swim on her own as well. she doesn't want you to hold her hand in the ocean and today learned how to jump into the pool all by herself (with mommy there to catch her, of course). now i have 2 more years of near-drowning incidents! take a look at our pictures.... :)

tubaholics

it's official- we are raising 2 fish. if these girls could stay wet all day long, we would never hear a cry or whine out of them! they both LOVE the water! :)