…sweetie-pie has never gone in the lake…  he doesn’t even like to get his toes wet and would walk away from the water’s edge…..and he is 8 year old…..

….yesterday morning, was a very big morning for Boucle……..

…we were standing on the beach and there was a slab of concrete in the water about 6 feet in.  The sun was shining on its surface and Boucle seemed curious about it.  So I stood at the edge of the water…..and he put his toes in.

…that in itself was very brave of Boucle……
…then he put his foot in…..looking at the slab a ways out…..
…you could see that he wanted to get there, was curious about it, but didn’t want to wade into the water……

…so I stood there, on the edge, for about 10 minutes……and let him slowly dip his toes, then his feet into the water….closer and closer to the slab.  Another 10 minutes of standing there while he went in and out of the water, behind me on the sand and then around back into the water.  I did not take photos of this, even though I wanted to, because I didn’t want to distract him from his bravery…..

….finally, he was deep enough, over his knees to get to the slab and make it up…..after a few minutes up there, I started taking pictures…….

….you can see how tentative and brave he was…….
….and then further down the beach…….he went in to his underbelly to try to get to a floating tennis ball….
….he didn’t go out to it, and stopped pretty much where he was in the photo, but still, to get that far, was very brave…….

…so now….I will probably have a hard time keeping sweetie-pie out of the water…..
…such a brave good boy…..

…and what a wonderful morning for sweetie-pie..     🙂