Water Baby
Yesterday was Sophia’s first swimming class. We were afraid she would scream and cry through the whole thing especially since she didn’t take her afternoon nap, but she LOVED IT! I mean she really LOVED it – A LOT! There was one part in the middle of the class where we sat the kids on the side of the pool and sang/uttered/or in my case mumbled Humpty Dumpty, then the kids would “jump” to their parent in the water. There were only two other kids (toddlers) our group and Sophia was the only infant. Sophia sat on the side with me holding her in place. Her chin was quivering because of the seemingly cold air on her wet skin, but she laughed the whole time! They did that three times and then we had them stand on the side while we sang/uttered/mumbled London Bridges Falling Down. On cue, they would jump in. I of course held Sophia in position, I lifted her up and into the water, but on the third “London Bridges” she pushed with her legs trying to jump in.
That first part with in the four-foot area of the big pool, but after that we went to the small side pool that was much warmer and only one-foot deep. The instructor dumped out a basket of bath toys and had the kids put them back in the basket. Sophia caught onto this pretty quick and actually put the one toy that came to her into the basket again.
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