Swimming

On Martin Luther King Day we decided to go swimming.  We have a great indoor pool close to our house with a lazy river and a rope obstacle course.  My kids love it. 

 Here is Madison's story with the ropes course.  I didn't let her do it the first few times we went - because... well.... she was two and two year olds could not do that.  Finally one time the pool was hardly crowded, so I let her try.  Boy was she determined to show me.  She did  the whole thing - it took her about 20 minutes... LITERALLY.  She has crazy upper body strength.  Her feat would slip off the floaties into the water and she would just hold on to the rope and try to swing her body back on to the lily pad.  She would fall off again, but swing her self back on, again.  She would repeat that process about 10 or 15 times - but she never let go of that rope.  By the end of it she had attracted quite a crowed of cheering kids, parents, and life guards.  The life guards said they had never had such a little kid ever try, let alone make it across (she is 3 now - but 2 when this all happened).  Sadly I didn't have my camera that day so today I remembered to take some pictures.  It is funny to watch everyone's reactions when she gets in line - usually a "big kid" or a lifeguard will move her out of line and tell her she is too little - she firmly tells them she is not and can do it.

Seriously - she kicks her legs back up and slides her bottom back on that to stand up - over and over and over again

Her hardest part is this crocodile nose - it is too narrow and slippery to kick her body over, she will get her feat up and then she just slides back over to the other side, she will seriously do this 10 or so times.  Eventually she has to scoot her hands along this rope and try again on the crocodiles back  - which is hard because it is so much higher out of the water.

They make us get out for 10 minutes every hour.  Here is Brock and Jason just chill'n.