We just returned from a week on Sanibel Island in Florida. My spring break coincided with my mom’s, and she was dying to spend some time at the ocean with her only grandchild, so we headed south with my parents. It was nice to travel and do everything with a four-to-one adult-child ratio—made it much easier to relax, and AgustÃn and I were even able to go out to dinner alone one night. We took walks on the beach, biked, swam, ate (well!), and went on an airboat ride in the Everglades to see crocodiles. 
Emilia makes sure she gets every last lick of ice cream!
Emilia enjoyed catching crabs (well, watching them after someone else took them out of the ocean for her to see; no worries—they were all treated very humanely and all went back to where they came from) and playing in the sand at the beach, but what she loved more than anything else was swimming in the pool. She’s always enjoyed going to the pool, but once there has usually been more interested in playing with the toys than actually swimming. Eventually she’d get in the water and enjoy it, although she didn’t love going under the water too much. But in Florida, where she was in the pool at least once a day, she was a total fish! She was jumping off the edge and going under on her own practically before someone was ready for her to do so, swimming all on her own with a noodle under her armpits, and loving every minute of it. It was so fun to see!
Our little swimmer moves on to diving (well, we still need to work on the form a bit)!
The above two pictures were taken at the house of some family friends that moved to Florida years ago, the Bresnehans.