Fear

We had a pretty good laugh the other day. Lauren, as many of you know, is pretty fearless when it comes to things like climbing, swimming, and all those things that often instill fear into the hearts of the young and inexperienced. While vacationing up at the lake house in Maine we were swimming with a group of kids at a birthday party at a neighbor's house. Most of the kids were much older than Lauren, so she seemed like a peanut compared to many of the children who were jumping from the dock and swimming the lake. We still keep Lauren in a life jacket while swimming there... mostly because she's not a strong swimmer yet and partly because we just don't know when she may decide it's time to launch herself into the water. Anyway, she spent a lot of her time in the water doing what the big kids were doing... climbing up onto the dock and then jumping back in, often onto some random "floatie" in the water. After one of the small breaks from swimming she asked me to put her life jacket back on. Once she was secured she ran off down the length of the deck, right past a group of the older kids, and threw herself back into the water. One of the kids, realizing that the flash that just passed by him and into the water was the three-year-old girl, called out to us in disbelief and asked "Is she afraid of anything?" Ha ha! No, no... I'm afraid she isn't.