It's been hot this last week. "Heat Wave" in the papers. So, we have been swimming every afternoon for over a week. Once at Pike Lake and the rest of the time at my mothers.
On Thursday, swimming finally clicked with my kids!! They are now pretty much fearless of jumping off the pier and putting their faces in the water.
Titus will run and jump off the end of the pier without being caught, just retrieved! He jumps in, and then comes doggie paddling back to the top. No tears, no fussing about water in his face.
Isabele runs and then needs hands to jump (she can't jump and get both feet off the ground yet).
Isabele will swim about a foot underwater in the shallow areas. Titus does a great job of putting his marshmallow stick behind his head and floating on his back. He also does a super job with front kicking with his face all the way in the water and kicking his feet and blowing bubbles!
I think Isabele's favorite thing, after jumping off the pier, is to float around with the marshmallow stick under her armpits.
It is amazing how comfortable they have gotten in the water in this past week. Having the lake warmer than bathwater this week has helped a lot.
Little tid-bits from the daily hum-drum of life ... snippets that would otherwise most likely be forgotten.
Great observations. Simple Reflections. So great to read the progress you guys are making everyday... learning to take it all one step at a time. So good to know kids are getting healthy, consistent messages! Wish that were true more often! Wish we could all work more like a village, so even single-mothers could feel able to balance finding healthy safe ways to set consistent boundaries for the kids and make ends meet with the Family Budget to cover the basic costs of their part of the "providing for baby" Family Pact. I'm rambling now. Go Mom; Go Kids!
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