We took the girls swimming today and had a great time. With their new inflated arm rings they are much more confident in the water and don't cling to us at all anymore. In fact, we can hardly keep up! Especially Ladybug is a crazy little fish monster. Several times, she dashed out of the kid pool (which is huge but warm and shallow making it perfect for a family swim) and tried to hurl herself into the deep end of the lap pool. Daddy finally took her into the lap pool but entered in the shallow end. So she swam, on her own, to the deep end. And then tried to climb up the ladder to the high dive platform. (she was pretty mad at daddy for not letting her onto the diving boards). Meanwhile, me and Butterfly played in the family pool and made friends with anyone remotely her size.
The girls also loved the "lazy river" that has a natural current to help push them along. (my favorite part is following these little girls and watching them kick and paddle, so independent and adorable) And they had a blast playing on the jungle gym and slide in the middle of the pool. They went down the slide at least twenty times each (we had to make them go feet first but Ladybug would slide lying on her belly instead of sitting up). And then the last thing we did was the big slide. Ladybug begged to go (despite its intimidating height) so daddy climbed the stairs with her, put her on his lap and then came rushing down with a gleefully happy girl. Her face was priceless. On the third run Butterfly went with them and loved it enough that she insisted doing it by herself the next time.
Another awesome family date for our water babies.
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