Jared went fishing in Mission Bay on the morning of Father's Day (he said the fishin' was good), and then the boys and I hopped aboard with a bag of sandwiches and snacks at lunchtime and we boated over to a cove that was perfectly sheltered from the wind. I know that deep down inside Parker really wants to swim, and I can tell that he's opening up to the idea of it and overcoming his fears more and more each day this summer. He was excited to put on his life jacket after lunch and start splashing and "jumping" in the water with Jared--they even swam back to the boat together from the little sand spit we were playing on. The wind made things kind of chilly, but we sure appreciated a sunny afternoon in June!!
On a side note, Parker got bitten by a mosquito that Friday evening above his eyebrow, and by Saturday mid-morning his eye was hugely swollen--by Sunday morning it was nearly swollen shut. It was so hard to see him like that (he literally looked like a boxer after a fight), although it was some consolation that he really seemed unbothered by it and that the swelling went down almost entirely by Monday evening. It seems like he's just particularly sensitive to bug bites (he got so many bites on his head on our trip to Zion that I truly worried that he had lice), hopefully it's something that he grows out of. So, you might notice that his (left) eye looks a little funny in these pice.
