Face First

This weekend went by so fast. Between Katherine's house and Julie's parents, we were in the water about half the time. We found out Ellie loves the water. Before this weekend we couldn't even get Ellie in the bathtub. She now loves the bathtub. We went to my sister, Katherine's, house on saturday. It was really hard to tell if Ellie liked the water or not. Julie was playing with her in the pool, but she didn't show emotion one way or the other. When she got out, she just wandered away by herself--she often does that. The next day we went to Julie's parents. They live on a lake. The Lake is really nice--it doesn't have the gross bottom, well it does, just not by the shore. So we had Ellie playing by the shore in the water a little. She was loving it, I think because her older cousins were giving her the time of day. She decided she was able to handle herself and let go of my hand. I thought she was fine. She proceeded to (baywatch it) run into the deeper part of the water and tripped and face-planted into the water. I quickly grabbed her. She came up with a nostril full of water. She looked up at me and after the initial shock of the whole thing, she smiled at me. Pretty cute. Most kids like the water, I just thought it was funny how Ellie went from only taking a bath in the baby bathtub to now pointing to the kiddie pool when we go into the garage. I think she just needed to get really wet to really like the water.
With Ellie loving the water we do have one small problem. We have to take her cochlear implants off. She can't hear when she's by the pool or by the lake. We have a little bathing suit with a floater in the middle of it. She looks like a barrel with arms and legs. This, however, doesn't help if she goes face first in the water. She has done very well so far and has stayed away from the edges of the pool. Julie and I said we will have to teach her to swim very soon.