Where we live, there's an indoor pool/spa as well as an outdoor one. The outdoor one is closed for the season, so we're taking full advantage of the indoor one. The last couple of days Pete has been working with Clifford to learn how to swim without using his floaty devices. After about two days of doing this, Clifford can swim!!! (well, he still has a long way to go to be "super good" but it's still great). He's fearless!! He runs and jumps in. He loves doing cannon balls. And he'll even jump in at the deep end and swim all the way to the stairs. Pete tried to teach him how to dive. After a few tries and just doing belly flops, we decided to give up on it and try again in the future. Today we went swimming and there were 3 boys at the pool. Clifford watched them for a few minutes and then decided to go jump in the pool himself and try some of the new "jumps" like the other boys were doing. This time I remembered to bring the camera. I got a few video/pics in before Clifford came up to me and quietly, but firmly said "mom, don't take pictures of me". That's when I realized that Clifford was "embarrassed" of his mommy taking pictures of her little boy. Pete and I just laughed.
We also worked on teaching Kristjan how to swim. Kristjan is a "big baby" (we would never say this to him though)-he prefers the hot tub where it's warmer. Kristjan was wearing the other swimsuit that has floaties built in to the suit. So we worked on him swimming in the pool. He would only use his legs and not his arms-though he was fast in the water; he'll have some strong legs if he keeps that up. He didn't like it much, so after about 10 minutes we let him go back in the hot tub. We'll keep working on him. Pete's going to work on editing the videos and then we'll put them on.
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