We joined a gym this weekend and the top of the list of reasons (and maybe my only reason) was to get H into a pool! There is an infamous picture of my childhood (really baby-hood) where I can't even hold my head up yet and my mother is DUNKING me under water in a pool! Somebody call CPS....I feel scarred!!
Anyway, swimming has always been a big part of my life and I don't want Hayes to be scared of the water and we don't really have the time to put him in swim lessons (not to mention that I am perfectly qualified for that position!)...so we had to get him exposed to water!!
The university that we are affiliated with up here (VCU) built a new rec facility last year in a former industrial/warehouse space and it.is.nice. They have TWO pools in one of their two facilities and one is tailor made for introducing someone into the water!
Hayes was a little scared the first day but was eventually able to get down into the water to his chest/neck level (the sloped area starts at 0 feet 0 inches). And the second day he was able to get there immediately and by the end of the "session" he was holding on to me like a kick board and kicking his feet and SMILING! A huge improvement over the constant scared whining :)
We were not able to take pictures since Joey and I were both occupied but it was cute and fun! And I am ecstatic that there is not one more photo documentation of me in a bathing suit during this pregnancy :)
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