Well, we had our first swim of the year last week! We all enjoyed it. Yes, even Emily and Ashley, who were content to dangle their toes in last year, had a good time. We got to the pool and initially were disappointed to find that, though they were excited about the idea of swimming, they were still scared. We swam alone for a little while, then Emily saw me jumping off the diving board into the pool. She decided she wanted to do it to, so she got my attention and asked to jump off the diving board too. Well, I thought that was great, and we should do it, but unfortunately my mom vetoed Emily’s brilliant idea. Instead, Emily jumped off the edge of the pool into my arms. After that she was excited to do anything, so we got out the water wings, and… we had some swimmers!! That was all fun, until we realized that we had to stay by their side in the shallow end the entire time! We immediately thought up several solutions for the problem…
* Swim with them in the deep end
* Pass them off to a willing (?) sibling and run off
* Complain until mom either tells us to leave them with her, or comes into the water herself
Eventually they started to get scared again and returned to their former positions on the steps with the tips of their toenails dangling into the clear water... Until next time...
