Beach House Vacation : August 28 - September 5

September 5, 2010 by Dad.

I was trying to think of another title to this posing - something like “Fish Man Found !” or “Dude’s a Fish” or “At Home In Water” but since they all seem to fit perfectly I just went with the Beach House title and figured the pictures could speak for themselves. Etienne found water in the form of the pool at our vacation beach house down on Anna Maria Island in Florida. We started out very carefully - he would be wearing a life jacket and had a super large pool noodle which we held and followed him around in the pool. We discovered that he did not want or need to be held and was perfectly able to hang on to the noodle and scoot-kick his way around the pool. The dude is 11 months old, can’t stand or walk yet, but he can swim !!

Etienne would join Cezanne and I for a post breakfast swim and then take his nap but after his nap he was always eager to get back in the pool. Here is looks down from the balcony above.

Below are just more of the vacation photos taken in and around the pool as well as on the beach. Etienne loved the beach and felt he needed to taste each and every shell he could lay his hands on. We had to continually fish things out of his mouth. In one instance he found the brush for cleaning the grill and was playing with it in the pool - see his reaction when Lanelle took it away from him :-() !

  Clearly this little man is at home in the water and he holds on so firmly that eventually we could leave him to swim “freely” - see the final photo.

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