One of the highlights of staying with my Mom and Dad on vacation (besides seeing family and the fact that we have the entire bottom floor to ourselves), is that they live in a gated community with a pool. And because this pool happens to be in British Columbia... it's HEATED! Oh yah! So every single day my dad would take our family to the pool after naptime. It was so much fun. But the highlight for me was seeing how far the kids have come with their swimming in just one summer. Molly started the summer timidly swimming with her floaties, and she's now swimming up to 10 feet at a time without floaties, jumping into the pool, and eagerly going under the water to do headstands and flips.
Garrett started the summer EXTREMELY timid and would cling to my body for dear life. But in Canada he was swimming short distances with his life jacket on and this week I bought him floaties and he used them for the first time!
And Paige... Paige is a fish. Like Garrett she started the summer in a life jacket. But by the end of the summer she is now swimming around the pool with floaties on like she's been doing it her whole life. She will swim the ENTIRE length of the pool and get mad at you if you try and help her.
I'm so thankful that the kids are becoming so comfortable in the pool and it's so fun that my parents have been able to see them show off their new skills!
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