Swimming....

The city pool is open, and I've been twice already!  Kids are FREE, and adults are only $2.00, so I'm pretty happy.  ;)

The other night, we went as a family (previously I'd only taken Ruby on our "date"), and it was lots of fun.  Ruby and Isaac both braved the diving board - over and over and over and over.  That was a first for both of them.  They have no fear of being underwater which raises my anxiety level significantly since they can't swim.  (Swimming lessons start next week, though!)  Lifejackets are my friend.  Jadelyn informed me a couple times that she was going to jump off the diving board.  I told her that she needed to prove to me that she could jump off the side of the pool first, which she started to do once, followed quickly by a "nevermind".  ;)  All three kids worked with me on their swimming without their lifejackets on.  Ruby is learning to float on her back for a second or two, and was going under the water to jump off the bottom (that freaked me out).  Isaac became a back floating PRO all the sudden, and giggled and thrashed like a madman when we worked on swimming on his stomach.  He was at an angle that kept his head like a foot above the water and somehow he was still splashing with his feet.  If he giggles that hard during swimming lessons I'm not sure what his instructors will do with him!  Crazy kid.  Jadelyn didn't want to float on her back.  She liked doing a gymnastic move where she straightened her arms and pushed off my hands so she was way up in the air. 

The water was 85 degrees, and I think the air was warmer, so I'm not sure how we were all so cold.  Well, Jadelyn didn't seem to affected.  Isaac went and laid down wrapped up in his towel for a while, shaking like crazy.  Ruby went and joined him after a while, but by then Isaac was ready to resume swimming.  Ruby wrapped up in her towel and was shaking so bad, so before Isaac left to come back to the pool he covered her up with his towel too.  It was the sweetest. 

Another "sweetest" story was when Isaac was crying about having lost his blue shoes (croc thingys) until Friday because he didn't put them away (well, the crying wasn't the sweet part), and once Jadelyn found out what was wrong, she promised him that she'd buy him a new pair with her own money.  She wanted to go to the store before we went swimming and buy him some.  She can be so sweet, but yet she can provoke SO WELL!!!  =P 

Oh, those kids.