Monday, June 22, 2009

Mommy and Me Swimming

This morning was our first morning of Mommy and Me Swimming class!  We have a large heated outdoor poor as well as a heated baby pool about three minutes away from our house and I was super excited to take Benjamin and see how he liked being in a pool.  Since he loves his nightly bath, I thought he'd love being in a bigger body of water...WRONG!  The poor kid hated every minute of it!  It is only a half hour class and he cried for the first 20 minutes and clung to my neck so strongly that I thought he was trying to choke me.  And I don't really blame him since the supposedly "heated" outdoor pool wasn't exactly how I define "heated" or even "warm..." 
Here is Benjamin all wrapped up and shivering in his beach towel just after our class.  After this picture, we soaked (i.e. thawed!) in the spa-like temperatures of the baby pool.  And after sitting in my lap for a while, Benjamin finally worked up the courage to crawl and splash around the pool by himself :)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh, dear. Not an poster advertisement for pool fun. Mother

The Stevensons said...

My goal at the beginning of the summer was to take AWAY some of Liam's pool courage. He LOVES it to the point of jumping off the steps by himself into the 3 foot deep part! Scares me bonkers! It's taken a couple weeks, but I think he's getting the idea that he just can't do that....