Washington Swimming

We have traded in the monkeys’ gymnastics classes for the swimming pool for the summer.  We joined a local pool and looking forward to long days in the sunshine.

Ok, we are also looking forward to those 20 minute sun breaks that we get here.  We had one of those exciting events today, so we rushed over to the pool after school to enjoy it.

The monkeys were thrilled with their new hang out, and had a great time exploring. There is a good sized pool that is about 2 feet deep that Jack spent most of the time in.  He enjoyed walking around on his hands putting his head under.

Owen went straight for the deeper pool (about 3 feet -where he can still touch) and played with Katie and Sarah.  Eventually, Katie and Sarah tried to teach Owen how to swim.  It was the sweetest thing – Sarah holding his hands and walking backwards while Owen kicked.  Then Katie giving him some pointers and encouraging, “That’s great, Owen.  Now let’s do it again!”  (Even sweeter was when we got home and Owen told me that they had taught him to swim and he now knew how!)

Today Lisa and I just let the kids explore and have fun, but our children do not yet  know the evil plans we were hatching from our lounge chairs.  Lisa and I have traded swimming lessons (by Lisa) for academic lessons (by me).  we planned out the books we might use, and the fact that the kids will have to earn their popsicles  by reading and playing math games…somehow I don’t think they will mind.

We got our 30-40 minutes of sunshine before that grey cloud hovering just over the trees (in the photo below)  made it’s way to us, covering the sun, and dropping rain on the pool.

We take what sun we can get…

(This is Owen and Sarah in the bottom left.)