Flannery has lately been singing a new song she made up. It goes something like this:"I'm a water girl
I'm a water girl
Every every day
in the water girl"
And it's true! We've been swimming every day the weather was semi-cooperative this week. It's been wonderful!
It's amazing the difference in Flanna's confidence level in the water since last year! She's like a little fish this year! When she was swimming at the pool with "just floaties" for the first time, she kept saying, "I can do this! I'm swimming!" over and over. A few moms nearby flashed me little grins because she was just so adorably cute and proud of herself.
There's just nothing like being a witness to pure joy.
How did you learn to swim as a kid? I just remember freezing constantly at pools! And loving warm towels in the sun!
Because you were so incredibly thin. You were one skinny kid!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid our neighborhood had a pool, pretty big with a life guard. We walked there, swam and walked home. It's amazing how far from home we were allowed to go by ourselves. No way in this world I would have let you and your sister go that far without me.