Little Swimmers

The past few weeks the girls have been experimenting with what they can do in the pool. It used to be that they would just hang out in their little floatie ring, or hang on to one of us. But at the kiddie pool, we noticed them starting to go under the water a little bit. Of course, they would quickly pop right back up since they could stand in the kiddie pool. Then suddenly they seemed to have no fear of the pool. At our friend's pool -- which is not a kiddie pool -- one second they would be sitting on the step in the pool, and the next second they would just calmly slip off the step and under the water they went. But they would never panic (unlike Mom)... they would just hang out under the water a little bit. This went on for a few days and you could tell that they were basically practicing holding their breath and just trying to figure out what the pool was all about. Well, finally they figured out that they can do something under the water. Now, they will go under the water and either push off from the side or the bottom of the pool and then start moving their arms and kicking their feet. They are swimming!!

It was like the light bulb just went off. Neither Mr. D nor I thought they would even understand the concept of swimming so we haven't really been trying to teach them. But they figured it out themselves. Smart little boogers.... Of course, they have a long way to go until they become junior life guards or anything. But we were just amazed that all of a sudden they started doing it. Here are a few pictures. Check these girls out!!







Every swimmer needs some goggles. So off to Toys R Us we went. Here are the only ones that would fit them. The girls took a break from swimming just long enough for me to take a pic. Lil H is in the dolphin goggles and Lil N in the ducks.