Another coffee-on-the-patio morning with Luca. Then Laura showed us around the botanical gardens in Tucson. So fun to see all the crazy ass desert plants with their different kinds of swords and shields. Everything was in bloom too. Doesn’t that first cactus look like a breaching whale?

Then of course, pool time. The kids are seriously little fish now. I kept saying how strange it looks to see a child as little as Luca swimming around completely independently. Jumping, diving (with a foot flick at the end just like his dad), swimming the length of the pool underwater, going to the bottom of the deep end - I mean, is that normal for a three year old? Who knows, but it’s fun!

Finished the day with books, a pathetic snuggle with Grandma’s foot for poor Norman, who was completely exhausted and bewildered by this point, and an evening walk along the 4th hole, where Ada posted up to see if she could spot any owls.