Sure, Julia has been taking swim lessons for most of the winter, but this is the first time this year that she has gotten to go swimming freely in Jerry and Debbie's pool.
Unfortunately, the water was still really cold. Only Mimi braved going in with Julia. Poor Julia, her teeth were chattering after about 15 minutes, but she REFUSED to get out.
Since she did so well swimming by herself in her float suit last year, this year we thought we would try arm wings. I wanted something a little better than the typical plastic arm wings and found some that are made from life jacket material and has an additional band that goes around the chest.
Here she is in her new "icky bug" floaty....
She did not like this contraption at first. I think it was odd for her to have something on her arms.
But she quickly got used to them and figured it out.
She thinks floating is pretty neat too!
She continues to want to play with this boat she used her first summer swimming. We keep telling her she is too big for it and Baby Jude is now going to use it. She figured out her own way of using it, even if she was too big for it.
Julia had a BLAST swimming. After about 2 hours I finally had to DRAG her out of the pool. Her teeth were just a chattering and I was afraid of her getting sun burned. (I did put sunscreen on her)
I think we will be spending a lot of time at Mimi and Bappa's this summer swimming! Good thing they are both going to be retired!
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