We were in the pool

Kate loves the pool. Oh, Jack loves it too, but for him it's more the whole deal: throwing the ball around, playing table tennis, getting ice cream, seeing his friends if they happen to be there (or making new ones, he does that too).

With Kate, she likes that stuff too, but she also goes in the water and doesn't want to come out. She goes back and forth from the diving board (let's call it a jumping board, that's what she does), to the water slide, to the shallow end where she does flips and somersaults in the water, over and over again. When her head is above water, there's a running commentary: "Watch, Daddy!" And "Say Encore!" I said that once, explained it to her, and now she can't get enough of it.

She likes to "teleport," i.e. swim underwater to make it seem like she changed positions rapidly, she added a move where at the end of it she bounds out of the water with her hands on my shoulders. "Stay there! Stay right there!" And then teleports from 10 feet away onto my shoulders. And then she is off again, doing one-handed cartwheels in the water, flips, somersaults.

Sometimes I will get out before her, hit the bathroom, pack up some stuff, get a water. I come back 5 minutes later and she is still doing her flips, completely happy and entertained. I am not sure if she knew I had stepped away for a minute. She's just happy being in the water.

We did it all today, we will do it all again another day soon. If she could, I think she might do it forever.