SPLASH!!!

We went swimming at the new Aquatic Center on Saturday. Justin has been taking swimming lessons this past week and was happy to have a chance to show off his moves. Travis and I were looking forward to plenty of dunking so Justin would be happy to put his head under the water on his own during his lessons. Tyler started crying as soon as he saw we were walking towards the pool. (We hadn't been swimming since last summer.) Soon he was relaxing in the water and floating around with me.

Justin and Travis went over to go down the big indoor spiral waterslide. Justin put on a life jacket and we watched them both go down several times. Tyler decided he wanted to try it too. So, I put a life jacket on him and down we went. I held him up as we splashed and his head stayed out of the water. I thought he might start crying again, but he immediately signed for "more." So, down we went again. This time I slipped as we splashed and down I went and away he went. I regained my footing as fast as I could and reached out to find him and set him upright. I thought that would be it. But he wanted more. The next time down I slipped again and he LOVED it! Silly boy!

We went back into the kiddie pool to warm up and Travis started throwing Justin with his life jacket on and he would bob back up laughing. Tyler wanted to try and thought it was fun too! I just thought Tyler's transition was so funny. He went from crying about getting into the pool to sad that he couldn't go down the slide again. It was a fun night!