Turkey, take 2

We took our annual trip to Turkey to spend time with family. Elliot is getting more and more brave in the water and liked both the sea and the pool.


























One of the sandcastles constructed:















Lots of time was spent with Dede:














Kerem Amca and Ebru Teyze came too!:













He made the short, easy walk to the ice cream stand often:

































He used arm floaties for the first time and loved it. It took a day of showing him the floaties before he would allow us to put them on him. After waking up from a nap by the pool he asked me to put them on and said, "I'm ready." I let him go in the water and he swam away.














He also learned all about, and practiced, splashing and being splashed.