skipping ahead ...

... because the video is up, over Memorial Day weekend we visited our old next-door neighbors in Cleveland. Among the many fun things we did was visit the pool - which you can see Liza liked:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4616349272400236834
and for those of you who still haven't downloaded the google video player (tsk! tsk!), here's a still:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9220642788534188898

and another still for the Luddites among us:
The darling in the pink hat is Penelope, our neighbors' youngest child. She's 10 weeks younger than Liza, and she, too, enjoyed her first visit to the pool:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=128925206945102454
sorry, Luddites - no still for that one.

And lest you think that we only let them play in the baby pool, here's Liza with her Daddy in the big pool:

And a gratuitous shot that shows how much attention our neighbor pays when he's supposed to be watching his boys in the pool:

Matt, I told you I'd make you pay for not reading my blog more often! On the positive side, look at the six pack on that stud.