Fishy Monkeys

When Jon was smallish, his family used to joke that he was 50% monkey, 50% fish. The kid loved to climb. And when he wasn't climbing, he was swimming. He still loves to climb and swim - only now he refers to it as "ripping and tearing".

Our kids inherited those loves. I'm not much of a climber (I have a very sporadic fear of heights - sometimes I'm afraid, sometimes I'm not.)...and I prefer to sit next to bodies/pools of water (I also have a very sporadic fear of drowning). Over the summer, we did a lot of climbing and swimming. It was hard to take pictures since I was absolutely petrified that one of them (or myself) was going to fall or drown.

The only decent (ish) picture I got of the kids swimming this summer is this one taken with my phone.

Swimming at Nana's. When we were "home", the kids spent at least 6 hours a day in this pool.

We spent last weekend in PA enjoying some Gramma time. The kids would not stay out of the gigantic maple tree in her backyard. When I got over my semi-irrational fear that we were going to have to make an emergency trip to the ER, I managed to take some really cute pictures.

My little Monkey Man sitting in a tree. Look closely...you can just see his face peeking out.

Elliott sitting pretty.

Janna: "I'm bein' a gecko, Mommy! Just like in Florida!"

The sweetest monkey kids in the world!