More Swimming

To take a break from our crazy lives lately Brianna and I met a few friends to go swimming this morning. We got moving a little slowly so I quickly packed up our stuff into the diaper bag and we rushed off to go have some fun. Of course, it was only after we got there that I realized out of the 4 bathing suits Bree owns I'd managed to grab the one that is permanently stained. Yup, after I wrangled her into her little suit and she turned her back to me I noticed it..the large, brown stain left over from a diaper runneth over situation...it hasn't come out even with multiple washings. Oh well, I thought. So, despite a somewhat embarrasing stain we went out to the pool and had fun wading, jumping off the side and so forth. After a few minutes in the water though, I noticed that Bree's stain was looking a little less obvious...I think maybe the chlorine was bleaching it out? I was hoping that no one else noticed it though in case they were feeling grossed out by a poop stain getting miraculously erased in the pool. But, a few minutes later I had completely forgotten about that when my little girl came up and snuggled on me, gave me a big hug and said, "I love you Mom!" Actually, she doesn't say that very often just out of the blue. So, I savored it and filed it away for later. After all, it's those kinds of moments that make the poop stain incidents and toddler tantrums fade away in the big picture.