{"id":1634,"date":"2013-07-22T16:35:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T19:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2013-08-05T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T14:40:46","slug":"mommy-musing-monday-swim-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2013\/07\/22\/mommy-musing-monday-swim-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommy Musing Monday &#8211; Swim swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned during a <a title=\"Bull Pond swimming\" href=\"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2013\/07\/18\/throwbackthursday-swimming-swimming-in-my-giant-pool\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent #ThrowbackThursday<\/a>, we&#8217;ve had a pretty hot and sunny summer thus far.<\/p>\n<p><em>And hopefully I didn&#8217;t just jinx us so that the rest of the summer is RDF (rain, drizzle, and fog).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>We were at our summer home at Bull Pond a few weeks ago and it was a <strong>scorcher<\/strong> of a weekend. It was in the low 30 degrees Celsius (that&#8217;s around the high 80s for any American readers). The Humidex was definitely making it feel warmer and there was no way of getting any real relieve except going for a swim in the pond (as I also mentioned on Thursday, it&#8217;s something I thoroughly enjoy when at Bull Pond).<\/p>\n<p>Yet we faced a problem &#8211; Missy Moo was just as hot as the rest of us, but she couldn&#8217;t go swimming because even on such a hot day, the pond water was still too cold for her itty bitty body. The poor thing was stripped down to her diaper and was hot, hot, hot. She wasn&#8217;t even able to nap during the day much at all because she was so overwhelmed with the heat.<\/p>\n<p>How silly did I feel when I remembered that we have an extra baby bathtub at home, but didn&#8217;t think to bring it with us! And yet I remembered to bring her new swim diaper and some bathing suits&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you just have adapt and make due with what you&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n<p>My father had a small mail crate and we filled it with some water.\u00a0After it was in the sun for a couple of hours we decided to help little miss cool off and boy did she ever!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"20130707_154318.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26814432@N07\/9235892580\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"20130707_154318.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3780\/9235892580_7dbb0c718c.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A little bit of shock at her first experience in some fairly cold water while wearing her new My Little Lion Designs swim diaper!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Notice the adorable swim diaper she&#8217;s wearing. It was made by the wonderful and talented Christina Kubik, owner of <a title=\"My Little Lion Designs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/MyLittleLionDesigns#\" target=\"_blank\">My Little Lion Designs<\/a>. The swim diaper we have is fantastic and was perfect for the cool dip Missy Moo needed on such a hot day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RrR06ZQSR3Y\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: I tend to call my daughter &#8220;two by four&#8221; when she will no bend because she&#8217;s like a piece of plywood!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"My Little Lion Designs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/MyLittleLionDesigns#\" target=\"_blank\">My Little Lion Designs<\/a> has lots of other great products and I&#8217;ll do a proper review of some other products that we&#8217;re enjoying including a very snazzy bib and wet bag. So if you haven&#8217;t yet, go check out Christina&#8217;s <a title=\"My Little Lion Designs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/MyLittleLionDesigns#\" target=\"_blank\">Etsy site<\/a> and her <a title=\"Facebook page for MLLD\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MyLittleLionDesigns?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"20130707_154507.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26814432@N07\/9235892654\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"20130707_154507.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7456\/9235892654_f219fa1903.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">All finished cooling off!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned during a recent #ThrowbackThursday, we&#8217;ve had a pretty hot and sunny summer thus far. And hopefully I didn&#8217;t just jinx us so that the rest of the summer is RDF (rain, drizzle, and fog). We were at our summer home at Bull Pond a few weeks ago and it was a scorcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[97,93,99,103,98,94],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3zorl-qm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}