swimming and Ella!

So last night we went to the pool with Jen, Jim, Tiffany, Jessie and some girls that we know. We have been coaxing Ella back into the pool ever since her tragic Water exploration that ended in an over her head experiance...she has been protesting the pool. It took josh taking her out in a floaty that you sit it and showing her that he wasn't holding on to her, for her to realize that she was safe. She is a silly girl! Brandon has a similar floaty and was happy to be kicking and floating away. and would kick and float and suck on the floaty. I eventually took him out and we spashed around for a while. He is a little frog! We even got Jessie off the steps and out into the pool in a floaty...she use to freak out at even the thought of leaving the steps. I took her out a bit and let her see that I wasn't holding on to her. After that she didnt want me to touch her any more and off she wentAs a side note we spend lots of time with Jennie and she knows her like her own mother...in fact I wonder if she thinks Jen might be her 2nd mother sometimes. she calls her Aunt jennie, Jelly bean, (that is jennies nick name for Ella but she calls jennie it back sometimes) and she just say hey Jen sometimes. After a while Ella got out to sit by Jen and hang out for a min. Then she came back to have me take her out into the water without a floaty and she looks up at Jim and yells "BYE JIM" and then looks and Jen and Yells "BYE LADY".....