Everyday I anticipate coming to grandma's house and hearing Carly spin around in her chair and say "CAN WE GO SWIMMING?" Normally I just sigh and say "we'll see" but when they all gang up on you its hard to say no, so out comes my wallet. Not that sitting by the pool for two hours watching children play and swim while I sit there doing..well nothing is not my favorite thing to do but I'm sure that you can see why it's not the most entertaining. In any case today I caved and so we went on an epic journey to scrounge together $13 to go to swimming. The girls where overjoyed I was melancholy. But when we got there and I watched as Carly leaped head on into the deep cold pool I couldn't help but smile. Truthfully I love swimming and I miss when I use to do it every other day at school, true I faked my way through the grade while my friends were more dedicated but I still loved it. After taking a few pictures and laughing with the Carly I finally pulled her out and asked her "little girl why is swimming your favorite thing?" without missing a beat she beamed up at me and said "because it's so much FUN!" and whipped around and sprang back into the pool.
My favorite thing about Carly swimming is how serious she is the whole time she's trying to swim a distance and then she stops and just laughs.
Or the way she would constantly turn
around before she pushed off to make sure I was still watching her.
Or maybe the fact that the crazy kid used 4 kick pads at once.
Maybe it's just that she has fun wherever she goes in the Lazy river or the waterside.
Even the simple waterworks area. As long as theirs water involved she's happy.
And of course my two other favorite girls where there having just as much fun.
One of Kate's favorite things to do is to jump into the 9ft section of the pool. Mollie was terrified.
We coaxed and gently tried to get her to do it reassuring her that everything would be okay and that I would be right there to jump in after her if anything happened. She was close to the wall and could easily grab on and everything was safe. Kate taught her the prime way to jump and told her to plug her nose. But the fear kept creepen up and she just couldn't do it. But to all of our surprise SPLASH and in she went.
It was a blast we all cheered and were so happy. And then of course Carly says "Can I go too?"
Today has been a marvelous and tiring day but I'm so dog gone happy and I don't think getting me to take them swimming will be quite as much of a challenge, just don't tell them that.
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