Swimming at grandma's house is the best! My kids make it a yearly goal to swim at least once a day while we are up there, and they almost always meet their goal. In fact, they swim so much while we are up there that I inevitable end up needing to take at least one child to Urgent Care for swimmer's ear. It becomes a nightly ritual - take a shower, brush your teeth, and get ear drops. We try to prevent it, but when you're in the pool for hours and hours a day? I guess those ears just can't dry out! So anyway, back to the swimming. Spencer and Tyler were both diving and doing flips this year off the diving board, and they got pretty good at them. Ella has turned into a little fish this summer, after a two week stint at swim lessons. She said goodbye to those water wings, put her face under, and hasn't looked back. Way to go Ella! The last weekend we were in Idaho I suggested that she try to jump off the diving board. She'll jump all day off the side of the pool, but that diving board seemed too scary. After lots of bribing and chickening out on her part, she finally gave it a whirl. And loved it, of course! So she jumped like crazy for the last few days we were there. The best thing about having the pool in the backyard is that we were always BBQing and munching, just hanging out, and it was always so much fun and easy. There were lots of naked babies running around, with chocolate all over their faces, and just some good family fun.
Swimming at grandma's house is the best! My kids make it a yearly goal to swim at least once a day while we are up there, and they almost always meet their goal. In fact, they swim so much while we are up there that I inevitable end up needing to take at least one child to Urgent Care for swimmer's ear. It becomes a nightly ritual - take a shower, brush your teeth, and get ear drops. We try to prevent it, but when you're in the pool for hours and hours a day? I guess those ears just can't dry out! So anyway, back to the swimming. Spencer and Tyler were both diving and doing flips this year off the diving board, and they got pretty good at them. Ella has turned into a little fish this summer, after a two week stint at swim lessons. She said goodbye to those water wings, put her face under, and hasn't looked back. Way to go Ella! The last weekend we were in Idaho I suggested that she try to jump off the diving board. She'll jump all day off the side of the pool, but that diving board seemed too scary. After lots of bribing and chickening out on her part, she finally gave it a whirl. And loved it, of course! So she jumped like crazy for the last few days we were there. The best thing about having the pool in the backyard is that we were always BBQing and munching, just hanging out, and it was always so much fun and easy. There were lots of naked babies running around, with chocolate all over their faces, and just some good family fun. 
2 comments:
Your divers have great form! What a fun time for all of you.
What a great back yard!
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