My babies the fish

I am so proud of my babies, they have turned into quite the little swimmers. We go swimming often at Applebee’s. What you ask? There is a local hotel here that has a Applebee’s attached to it that we frequent often, hey Tuesday night kids eat free (and it come with an ice cream sundae) One night after eating we went wandering through the hotel and found an awesome indoor pool. It’s huge with a hot tub as an added bonus. Marty went to the front desk to ask if they had any sort of membership (believe it or not but many of the hotels do that around here) and they said no, but just come and swim anyway. Twist my arm, the kids get to swim and I don’t have to put sunscreen on them. What could be better?!?
At the beginning of the summer Abby was very hesitant about going under water. She has never liked getting water in her eyes. So we decided to use the best teaching tactic, praise the younger brother. You can throw Andrew in the water and he comes up laughing. He wears arm floaties and does such a great job “swimming” He will get out and jump in all by himself. Well, Abby was not going to be out done by her little brother. We bought her goggles so water won’t get in her eyes and she hasn’t turned back since. Once she realized that Andrew was getting such a hip hip hooray for going under, well she wanted to do it too. She will now jump in with or without her goggles, touch the bottom of the pool (well as far as her float will allow her) and bounce back up. I am so proud. She still has to hold her nose though, baby steps.
Andrew just cracks me up; he couldn’t care less if water gets in his eyes. He will put his little head in the water and kick and kick. Poor thing goes backwards half the time. Last night we noticed that he swims underwater with his eyes open, not a care in the world.
It is so nice going to the pool knowing that the kids are going to have fun. The plus to that is that they also wear themselves out in all the fun. Double bonus.
I promise I will get video one day.