Swimming
We took Ethan swimming today at our neighborhood pool. He really likes the baby pool, but he’s not a huge fan of the big pool. We have a life jacket for him to wear in the big pool, but he’s still extremely cautious even with the life jacket on. He mostly hangs out on the steps. Occasionally he’ll “swim with dada”, which consists of me pulling him around the pool for a few seconds before he gets ready to go back to the steps. Today he broke the trend when we told him it was time to go. He didn’t have his life jacket and he took off running to the big pool. I was chasing after him, but before I could catch up with him he jumped in! I jumped in right after him and pulled him above water. Ethan coughed a few times and I told him “It’s ok” which he kept repeating to me while we were swimming back to the edge of the pool.
Now we know he’s not scared of the water! I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but we had a good time and everyone is ok!
