While Lex was at his lesson yesterday Eve
and I swam in the current pool. It’s like a river that goes
around in a wiggly loop, with water jets creating a current
stream. It’s good exercise to walk in and they love swimming in
it. I usually hold on to Eve (despite her attempts to swim by
herself) and she kids her legs and wiggles her arms and ducks
under the water. Yesterday a lifeguard offered us a flotation
device that I’ve seen a lot of the kids wearing. It straps
around her belly and goes over both arms. Hard to explain, but
popular. I didn’t realize that some of the ones I’d seen around
actually belong to the aquatic center. We put the floatie on
her and I let her go! It keeps her relatively upright and she
just bobbed along in the current. It was so funny. I bought
them both life jackets, but they don’t love them because the
jacket rolls them over onto their backs. Safe, but not so fun
to swim in. This thing keeps their heads up and is really
popular with the kids. Anyway, she was bobbing along, having a
good time. At one point she had a sweet smile on her face — a
closed mouth smile, which is unusual for her. I pulled her over
to me to give her a kiss and she spit a mouthful of water at
me!! I was shocked! She laughed and laughed. Little
monkey!