Posts Tagged ‘Swimming’
Experimenting with Swimming
The summer swimming season is here! Miss Jordan decided that she’d get experimental while we were in the pool. Two days in a row, she asked to use her activity arm and two different hands while we were there. First, she gave her swimming arm a try – it’s a little paddle that could give…
Read More +When mom is down for the count…
…Jordan seems to be just fine. I spent a large chunk of the weekend super sick. Gross sick. The kind of sick you don’t really explain. So that left me without many parenting duties this weekend. Our Labor Day was spent lazily while I labored back to health. The big bummer? I didn’t get to…
Read More +She's a fish
Today it all clicked. Jordan got brave. She jumped into the pool a whole bunch of times. She dunked her head into the water and finally let loose and swam. She isn’t using her arms to swim yet. But she’s kicking and going places in the pool! She loved it so much she wouldn’t get…
Read More +"Why does everyone know Jordan?"
Cameron asked that question yesterday after the fourth lifeguard at the pool said hi to Jordan. He was feeling kind of left out. So I let him guess what feature of Jordan makes her unforgettable… He had to pause for a moment (and I love that he had to think about it for a bit).…
Read More +Warm weather and outside fun
The pools opened this weekend… And the kids were excited. I captured this awesome picture of Miss Jordan’s happiness. She and her brother got to go to a pool two days in a row. Jordan is not a jump-in-and-go kind of pool-goer just yet. She needs to be convinced to go in. Once she’s in,…
Read More +Getting brave
Jordan is in a swimming class with her brother… And we’re at that point where we’re trying to get her to try to swim. You know, when you push her towards the wall and hope she doesn’t breathe in the water. She’s been really confident until recently. She wants to cling to me when I…
Read More +Official Summer Fun!
Summer is here!! Our pool opened (it’s the first time we’ve been members of a pool) and it was great. The water was cold, but the place is really fun. Jordan got to go down a big water slide, play in the water and work on a couple of swimming moves. She isn’t swimming on…
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