Even More Fun in the Pool

Ooop! Let's try again with the correct privacy setting! I took this video with my (old, junky) phone, so the quality isn't great, but you get the picture!

More Swimming Fun

We are so proud of our boys and I am continually surprised by the things they do and say.

We went swimming again yesterday after work and school and suddenly Billy can swim!  He jumps in for one of us to pull him up, and then he turns himself around and swims to the side with his face in the water.  He repeated this over and over until the pool closed last night. 

When the whistle blew for the 5-minute "sunscreen break," he walked to the diving board and asked "is it my turn?"  Since he cannot pull up for breath mid-swim, yet, the answer is still "no," but my estimation is that he will conquer the diving board before the end of the summer (if not by the end of this weekend.)  This child is goal-oriented.

Eddie continued to jump, belly-flop, and corkscrew off the diving board. "Hey, Mom!  This one's called a cannonball!"

When we were sitting out for the break, he yelled to the lifeguard, an athletic early twenty-something.  "Hey Emily, how much longer?" 

Did he know this girl?  Even more surprising was her reply.  "Two more minutes, Eddie!"  Noticing our puzzled looks, she explained that Eddie had introduced himself to her. 

Later, I was playing in the deep end with Eddie and showed him how to stand on the side of the pool, lean forward, and fall in head first.  Sixty seconds later, Eddie had mastered diving. 

"Emily, watch me dive!"

"I'm watching, Eddie!"

Fourth of July Weekend

Eddie went off the diving board for the first 30 times in his life yesterday.  After pacing up and down the board looking a little like a kitten who had climbed up a tall tree, he finally jumped in for the first time and then proceeded to do it over and over again!  Everyone was cheering for him except for Billy, who insisted that it should be "MY TURN!"  The major problem with that, of course, is that Billy cannot swim yet!  He threw a massive tantrum that seemed to go on for a half an hour.  When Kyle and I were finally able to calm him down with juice and crackers, we were sitting with him on the side watching Eddie.  Suddenly I realized that Billy was halfway between me and the diving board heading in the direction of the board.  He fully intended to take the plunge!  I took off after him, noticing as I went that the lifeguard had shed her gear and was poised to dive off the stand.  Thankfully, I reached him and dragged him off the board before he had a chance to plummet like a stone to the bottom of a 12-foot pool.  I was rewarded with a renewed screaming hissy fit.     

We went to Lago Vista to see the fireworks at the lake on the 4th of July. 

I didn't want to take too many photos of Billy having his fits, but it was kind of cute.