Swimming With Dad

Here's proud papa and Alex before the lesson starts.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Well today we had fun at Mesquite Pool in Gilbert. Alex takes swimming "lessons" :) there at 10 a.m. each morning. This is more like, "getting to have fun in the water because mom and dad don't have a pool...." kind of lessons. Since Josh was off today he got to go in with Alex while I took pictures on the sidelines - It was so hot that I wanted to jump in, clothes and all... - But I didn't. The teacher is probably 16 years old, but so good. Josh was the only dad there today but he seemed just fine, surrounded by all those mammas! :) Our friend Jacqui is there with us, taking lessons with Bradley, her little guy. Here are some action shots.

Here's Jacqui and Bradley.


They are working on "big arms."


One part of the lesson has the little ones try to climb out of the pool so they would know what to do if they ever fell in. Alex loves this part and this is after he climbed out and saw me standing there in front of him. He's learning to wave so this is part wave, part excitement.


Needless to say, we have a lot of fun in the water.

After swimming Alex took a well deserved nap and when he woke up, Bradley and Jacqui were here to play. After taking about 20 minutes to wake up, have a bottle, and understand that there was another little person in his house, Alex played, not necessarily WITH Bradley, but they hung out together and even gave each other a Hi-5 when Bradley and Jacqui were leaving. We had some fun today so by oh.....5:45 tonight, Alex was ready for bed. He had dinner and a bath and fell asleep around 6:30 tonight!

I'm off to get some things prepared for my tutoring students tomorrow. I have to brush up on the Pythagorean Theorem for my soon to be 7th grader! We'll post more tomorrow.