Nico’s love of the water seems to be growing. He repeatedly swam laps in the lake after I stopped throwing his toy for him. We’re still working on jumping into deep water but we’ve made a lot of progress on swimming to the back of the boat to climb onto the swim deck. He needs me to boost his butt up and doesn’t quite understand that he needs to wait for me to do that. Shelly and I are just happy we’ve found a healthy way to completely tire him out. All that better that I can sit on the boat sipping on a beer while he swims!

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