First Swim

We went to Kerry's sister and brother-in-law's house in Huntington to celebrate New Years, and while we were there Tom's parents invited us to come swim in their pool.  Even though the boys came home last spring with plenty of pool season to enjoy, we spent the whole summer ridding them of giardia.  I'm guessing that all the chemicals in pools would have probably taken care of any danger of it spreading to other people, but....ick.  So the boys still hadn't been in a pool.  Come to think of it, they've only been in a bathtub twice, both times at Tom and Nancy's house, because we only have showers at our house. 

End result: they now think of Tom and Nancy's as the coolest place ever, and they still had the awesome kid confidence that since they knew what swimming was, they would surely be master swimmers.

We headed over to the pool, got the kids and Kerry all in swim suits, and had to keep a VERY close eye on the boys because they had no concept of the danger the pool could be.  They were seriously trying to just jump in.  After getting life jackets and floaties on everyone and going over basic safety, they were ready to try it out!

This shows a little of the excitement Yeb had.  And me at the end yelling for Kerry to grab a kid?  That also happened repeatedly. :)

It was absolutely hilarious.  Seriously.  I think that it made up for about a month's worth of tantrums to see them swim for the first time.  Yeb just flailed around, yelled in excitement and was continually thrilled by the water splashing on his face, Tam had the initial flail and then started watching the older kids to copy, and Kate calmly paddled around all the mayhem.  

 After swimming for a bit, Kate was still paddling calmly, Yeb had retired to the steps to play with some water toys, and Tam had swallowed enough water to make himself throw up, which ended the pool play date.

I'm excited to take our whole family swimming this summer, and to get Tam and Kate in swim lessons!