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Splash!

Amelia does this over and over and over. A few times in the past week, I have tried to remember being like that. I was older, I am pretty sure, but it must be exhausting. Apparently it is because we have to wake her up most mornings lately.

Amelia just finished a two week swim class and she has become a little fish. By the end of the class, she knew she had some new tricks and enjoyed herself. The big step was enjoying herself. She likes to go underwater now and she’s a different kid. It is very cool for me to not hang out at the baby pool anymore. She can jump in and get back to the wall (over and over and over), jump in and swim a little to us, swim from us to the wall. She can float by herself, (mostly when she doesn’t realize you took your one supporting finger away from under her head), do a very wiggly crawl stroke, and go through the motions of backstroke though she doesn’t go anywhere. She can get toys off the bottom of the pool if I push her head down to give her a downhill boost. She can’t swim headfirst downhill yet. And she went off the diving board a few times at her lessons and twice with me. I told her she couldn’t do it again with me until she could jump in AND swim all the way to the wall. It made me too nervous to have that precious girl depending on me in very deep water.

A couple times a day she asks me to tell her all about lifeguards.

Tonight she asked “Can I swim through your legs?”. I don’t know if she did that at her lessons, or saw someone else do it at the pool, or came up with the idea on her own. But she did it half a dozen times- went under, I pushed her head a little lower, and she swam through. (Grandma- I remember doing that with you at Tibits!) She asked a 5 year old if she could swim through her legs too, and just took off and rammed into the other girl’s tummy. It was hilarious. I am cracking up right now thinking about it. Amelia can be very in-your-face. The other girl was very confused.

Sorry grandfathers and great grandfathers. I really thought Father’s Day is next weekend, not in two days. So this is for you.

Daph figured out how to get the caps off of markers (not easy!) this morning while the girls were decorating cards.  The cards are on the way. Amelia picked out and colored the cards and Daphne did the envelopes.

Swim pictures of Daphne coming up next. Our camera battery died after a few pics tonight.