Today I decided we needed to go swimming after I picked Alli up from Marcie’s. I told her that Mommy wanted to go swimming, so she was all for it. As I was loading her in the car, I told her that by the end of the summer, I wanted her to be able to swim from one end of the pool to the other. She didn’t say much, and I thought that was a great goal for this summer.
Once changed into swimsuits, she jumped right in to the “big” pool (as opposed to the “little” pool, which is really our hot tub) with her duck floatie around her waist. I was a little slower at getting in, but eventually did a little dive off the second step to get acclimated to the water. And then we proceeded to swim down to the other end of the pool – me following her with her duck. We got down to the other end, and she took off the duck to jump back and forth on the bar stools. I had turned around for just a few seconds to check on the dog (isn’t that how it always happens) and when I turned back, Alli was 2 feet away from the stools treading water. I grabbed her duck and swam over to hand it to her.
Alli: “Leave me alone, I can do this.”
Mommy: “Swim to the side and use the wall.”
Alil: “No Mommy. I can do this.”
She was moving forward (slowly) while treading water, and hten taking deep breaths and swimming underwater, coming up and treading while eaking forward some more, and eventually made it to the other end of the pool. Wow!!! I was so proud of her!!! After that, she did it 5 or 6 more times – and one time left the duckie on the steps and swam out to the barstools (on her back) and then back to the steps. I was very excited. Our little fishy!!
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