Floating water baby

I started Sophia in swimming again. I’m taking her to a new place. I like it a lot better than the high school pool classes we took her to before. The first two sessions at this new place were very similar to the old place, lot of songs and singing Humpty Dumpty before counting to three and letting the baby swimmer ‘jump’ into the pool. The difference was that there were a lot more toddlers in the class and the instructor tries to get to know the infants and toddlers. Also, since those first to sessions the class has progressed and the class we took before never did.

Tuesday and Thursday were her third and fourth swimming sessions. On Tuesday the instructor held one side of a hula hoop while toddler held by a parent holds the other side of the hoop and we passed our infants and toddlers through the hoop to be briefly held by the instructor. He then had them ‘swim’ back to mom or dad. I thought for sure Sophia would cry, but she did fine. She wasn’t sure what to make of this person holding her, but her face didn’t turn upside-down slowing burning red with tears and shrieking like it usually does with many other people.

Thursday we put the kids in life jackets for a while and let them float around. I had Sophia on her back. Again, she did really well. Some stress showed on her face when she realized it wasn’t me that was holding her up, but she just quietly floated near me on her back with her arms and legs tucked in close to her body like a furless sea otter. I wish I had a picture to show, but since I have to be in the water with her, I have none.