Do You Swim In A Pool To Keep Yourself Cool?

The kids started swim lessons this last week. Ethan's in level 1, and Alyssa's in level 2, because I wanted their classes to be back to back so we didn't have to be at the pool forever. Stephanie Mano is their teacher. (I've never learned her married name - everyone I know still calls her Stephanie Mano.) She does a fabulous job with all of the kids, and they love it.

Ethan is a fish. While he's waiting for his class to start, he goes in the wading pool and plunges his whole body underwater, and just floats there for a few seconds. The he pops out of the water, takes a deep breath, and does it again. When it's his turn to swim across the pool with Stephanie, the first thing he says is, "I want to go underwater!" The first time he said that was Wednesday, and Stephanie looked so shocked and said, "Ethan! I think that's the first thing I ever heard you say!"



Alyssa loves her swim lessons, but she also loves playing in the wading pool. A couple of days ago, she rallied about fifteen kids together to create a whirlpool. (Come on, guys! We can do it!) And then she started singing. (Let's make a whirlpool, it's not hard. If we keep working, we can do it. Let's go around and around and around..) And when she stopped, a cute little boy said, "Keep singing! We're losing it! We're losing it!" Then, when we were leaving, she was so afraid that the kids left behind would lose heart and not be able to keep the whirlpool going without her.



Marcus was terrified of the swimming pool when we first went there this summer. Now he's climbing into the wading pool by himself, and having a fabulous time.