FEARLESS!!!

Macie has been fearless in the pool since she was a baby,  jumping off the side of the pool where the drop was as high as a small diving board at 18 months, going down the waterslide all buy herself at 2, jumping off the rope and diving board at 4, and today she topped it all. She watched this women doing flips off the diving board, and then saw this boy jump backwards off the diving boards, so she got up to the diving board, faced backwards and flipped that tiny little body off the diving board backwards into a full back flip. My heart sank the second I saw her flip back instead of just jump off the boards. The whole deep end of the pool just froze for a moment, cause nobody could believe this little 5 year old just did what she did. The lifeguards came over and asked if I was OK, and said she couldn't believe she just did that. I asked if they thought it was safe, and they said she did great and she can keep going. So she did it another 3 or 4 times. She then started to get tired and was trying to do flips but only did backwards dives. I love that she is fearless and is such a strong swimmer, but I don't know if my heart can handle it. She is swimming all on her own now with no life jacket in the deep water, and today she went off with friends well I stayed with Wade, and I couldn't take my eyes off of her to make sure she was safe.