i took Charlotte swimming again on Monday. i'd like to say i take her weekly, but it's been since they closed the outdoor pool. FWIW i LOVE swimming with her. It's not the swimming, it's the 20 minute ordeal in the locker room afterward that i avoid. ("Charlotte, we don't look under the stall doors." "Char, please be careful, the floor is wet.... awww, poor baby, did you slip on the wet floor?" "Charlotte, that's not our bag." "Charlie, come back in here, i'm not dressed yet!"... get the picture?)
Anyway, we both had a blast. Char discovered jumping in. Which was totally awesome the first few times, but she soon grew weary of mommy catching her and desperately wanted to run away and jump in ALL by herself. Um, no! She doesn't have any sort of flotation device... more on that later.
Even when i was holding her in the water, she wanted to be on her own. She seems to be a natural, kicking her legs and paddling her arms. She even put her face in on her own and thought it was funny when we went under together for just a fraction of a second. At one point, i had one hand under her chest just supporting her a little and she was paddling and kicking so hard that she actually swam faster than i was able to walk along the bottom! The cutest part is she kept saying "excuse me" (or "me me"... too stinking cute!) and trying to remove my hands from her body! Like that's going to happen lol!
About those flotation devices... i tend to avoid them because my sister was an INCREDIBLE swimmer who very nearly made the Olympics in 1984 (she was 3rd in her event and they take the first 2 athletes, so she was THIS close - ::holds fingers really close together::), and my sister always said "swimmies" are bad because they don't teach proper swimming form, etc. i wonder if she still feels that way about them; i'll have to ask her.
Next time i'm going to insist that DH go with us with the camera, just to get some cute pics of her swimming and/or jumping in.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment