Around here, where the sun shines HOT during the summer, we've learned to love it in our swim suits! Soggy swim suits! But you can't love water if you don't know how to float to the top for air. So we start em' young with Ms. Dana... and then make swimming a sport! 
Cole is still perfecting his stroke. Hopefully next year he will join the world of swim team. Or maybe the year after that!
But until then, he has established a fearless jump into the water and then gives it his all to the pool edge.
Cole is still perfecting his stroke. Hopefully next year he will join the world of swim team. Or maybe the year after that!But until then, he has established a fearless jump into the water and then gives it his all to the pool edge.And when he is done, he gets a gummy worm.
This is the aquatic center that the older ones love to work out in. It looks big. It is BIG! ... and it's brand new this year! and sometimes it is exhausting to think about the number of laps that swim in it each morning.
This is McKay's first year at swim team. He was scared to death on the first day! In fact, after the first lap he hopped out and said, "I am NOT doing this"... very determined like~which is in his genetic make up... But I reminded him that we will not be giving up after one lap. Because that is unacceptable. And so then in an extremely uncharacteristic defiant tone McKay informed me "I am NOT going back". So we had a little pow wow followed by my very own promise that "if you still hate it by the end of the week then we will get out". One week... who can't do that? HA! wouldn't you know it... by the end of the first day McKay was IN LOVE with that swim team. He couldn't get enough! "But I am NOT competing, Mom".
This is the aquatic center that the older ones love to work out in. It looks big. It is BIG! ... and it's brand new this year! and sometimes it is exhausting to think about the number of laps that swim in it each morning.
This is McKay's first year at swim team. He was scared to death on the first day! In fact, after the first lap he hopped out and said, "I am NOT doing this"... very determined like~which is in his genetic make up... But I reminded him that we will not be giving up after one lap. Because that is unacceptable. And so then in an extremely uncharacteristic defiant tone McKay informed me "I am NOT going back". So we had a little pow wow followed by my very own promise that "if you still hate it by the end of the week then we will get out". One week... who can't do that? HA! wouldn't you know it... by the end of the first day McKay was IN LOVE with that swim team. He couldn't get enough! "But I am NOT competing, Mom".
What ever McKay... That will be next years pow wow.
and so off he jumped... swimming his heart out... and finding that sometimes hard things are fun.
And sometimes they are even addicting!
Bailey, on the other hand, wakes up happy and early each morning, pouring herself a bowl of cereal so that she has energy but doesn't feel full. She braids her pig tails and steps into her swim suit. As soon as car pool arrives, she is off!
I arrived early to watch her glide through the water before picking her up. She swims like a dolphin. She was in the middle of swimming 8 laps, boustrophedonically, without stopping! HOLY SHMOLLY. And I couldn't help but feel endorphins kick in from all that good exercise! I even suggested she do a sprint tri (for kids) with me and her aunt Rosie this winter... and that little lady smiled and said, "we'll see". 
The swim teamers in my family are certain that they haven't a desire to compete. However, Cole is sure that he will be winning at the meets when he finally gets to go to swim team.
and so off he jumped... swimming his heart out... and finding that sometimes hard things are fun.
And sometimes they are even addicting!
Bailey, on the other hand, wakes up happy and early each morning, pouring herself a bowl of cereal so that she has energy but doesn't feel full. She braids her pig tails and steps into her swim suit. As soon as car pool arrives, she is off!
I arrived early to watch her glide through the water before picking her up. She swims like a dolphin. She was in the middle of swimming 8 laps, boustrophedonically, without stopping! HOLY SHMOLLY. And I couldn't help but feel endorphins kick in from all that good exercise! I even suggested she do a sprint tri (for kids) with me and her aunt Rosie this winter... and that little lady smiled and said, "we'll see". The swim teamers in my family are certain that they haven't a desire to compete. However, Cole is sure that he will be winning at the meets when he finally gets to go to swim team.
We are keeping it quiet from Cole that once he finally joins swim team he trades in gummy worms for an hour of pool laps. What he doesn't know won't hurt him for now... and anyway, I know just what to say if a pow wow is needed when we get there.
Because this IS how we tolerate summer around here!!
In our soggy suits.
3 comments:
You have a family of fish! Glad they are having a great time.
Swimming is the best! I love that your kids love to be in the water! You have to love the water when you live here!
Where would us Arizonan's be without swimming to cool off the Summer heat? I loved your post, it took me back to many Summers filled with swim team and swim meets. I love the new aquatic center, is that Kino's new pool? I'm so out of it:). Enjoy those little fishy's, it goes by way too fast!
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