Saturday, April 20, 2013

swimming lessons

We are part of an HOA.  Pretty much the only benefit of this annual HOA fee is the outdoor swimming pool that is open Memorial Day through Labor Day.  Even though we didn't move in until the end of June, we spent a lot of time there.  Since I have to spend every moment keeping Pratt-man from getting me arrested for child neglect, and since Porter refuses to leave the safety of the stairs and handrail, I thought it would be a good idea for Aimee to have some water skills. (Aimee is pretending to be a water puppy in this picture).
It was only twice a week for three weeks, but Aimee loved it.  Honestly, I am really not sure why.  I wasn't exactly impressed with the class.  There were six little kids in her class.  For thirty minutes the teacher went down the row of kids hanging on to the side of the pool and helped them to the other side and back.  While the other kids sort of just hung on the side, bobbing up and down, Aimee provided entertainment for herself and everyone at the pool.  She would challenge herself to a dunking contest, play finger puppets on the edge, through her legs up on the side in a pretend game that I have yet to figure out, try to figure out how to use her hands as squirt guns (like the funny old mad that was always floating around in the pool during her lesson), or instigate splashing games that the teacher would put an abrupt end to.  Like I said, she loved it.
At the last lesson the teacher did allow the kids to go down the water slide.  I had a hard time getting her out of the pool.  In June Aimee is taking another round of swimming lessons at a different place.  Porter will be joining her.  Hopefully her enthusiasm for the water will rub off on him a little...

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