This little beauty keeps me on my toes.I recently took the girls swimming for the first time.. in my parents' neighbor's above ground pool. Being the frugal woman I am, I wanted to see how they liked it before we invested in a pool like it.
In a matter of minutes, both Charis and Selah were different children. Their confidence level in the water sky-rocketed. They even submersed their faces in the water!
I know this may not seem like a big deal to most people but for my two girls, it's HUGE considering neither one likes to get bath water in her eyes.
Watching the two of them paddle around (they can't officially swim yet), it took less than two minutes for me to decide that it would definitely be a great investment. We WILL be getting one.
(My parents even said they'd pitch in and make it a part of the girls' birthday presents. Yay for generous grandparents! Thanks, guys!)
But then I watched Raegan and rethought my "definitive" buy-a-pool stance.
She is a child who wants to do everything on her own. especially if she sees that her older sisters can do it. And swimming proved no different.
There she was in one of those heinous floaty bathing suits. Those suits that come with sewed in floatation devices that are supposed to help the child stay afloat when all it really does is make them turn at awkward angles.
forcing their head to hang in a way that allows them to inhale copious amounts of chlorinated water.
But regardless of Raegan's continuous face plants in the water, she insisted on doing it herself. Yelling at us if we held on to the back of her suit. "No, Mommy! It's my turn. Let me do it."
Over and over and over...and over and over and over again. She insisted that we not hold her. guide her. or touch her.
Apparently we were supposed to just watch her sink like a rock. Cheering her on all the while. God help me.
My mom thinks that she'll be swimming like a fish by the end of the summer. because of her drive and determination to get 'er done.
I sure hope so because she wore me out in ten minutes time. No joke.
But then there was this little beauty.
She hates everything to do with water. Up until a few weeks ago (she was 8 months), she would scream during bathtime. Now she just whimpers for a while.
But after 10 minutes in the pool water, she was kicking and splashing and snorting.
Yes. Snorting. A lovely little trick that Daddy showed her. Something she's adopted as her very own. snorting/laughing like Sandra Bullock on Miss Congeniality.
Dainty little quality.
So if you are ever driving by a house with a newly installed above ground pool and you hear a 2 year-old shouting "I do it by myself!" along with a 9 month old snorting like a pig in heat, then pull in the driveway.
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