pool progress

It's been a little over a week since we bought the pool.  For the first few days we were missing this key piece:

 

In case you're ever wondering, that is what's known as the "inflation nipple."  Yup.

Anyway, we knew that piece was missing when we got the pool (from some awesome people, by the way), but Intex sent one for free.  All we needed was the plug, but they just cut the whole piece out of a salvaged pool and sent it on.

Of course, as soon as we got the piece in, we were hit with several days of rain, resulting in more delays.  We started filling it up today, though, and I'm hoping that in the next 48 hours we'll have the pump and saltwater system running and everything will be ready to go.  Here's a shot of what it looked like earlier today:

It has some dirt in it from our rain days, but by the time it's full, everything should be sparkling clean.  Hooray!

We probably won't get Asher in it for a couple of weeks simply because the water will be too cold, but I'll definitely have some pics of him in the water once we get going.

For now, enjoy this picture of him BEARING WEIGHT!  He stood on Chad's lap like this for about thirty seconds before collapsing.  He was using Chad's legs for a little balance support, but all of his weight was on his feet.  Superstar!