First time swimming!

Oh my goodness, look how chunky you are in the above picture. I love it.

Today I took you to the pool for the first time! With the way those little legs of your kick, we always joke that you're a little swimmer - so I figured it was time to find out! Plus, you had this adorable striped pool romper in 0-3 month size that I never got to use because you were still in preemie/newborn size in the summer. So it was also a good way to sneak in wearing it once while it still fit! The pool idea occurred to me a couple days ago out of nowhere. Something about going swimming in the middle of winter I guess. So I scouted around until I found a rec center with daytime pool hours, then searched until I found a store with Little Swimmers diapers in stock, and we were good to go!

We went with your buddy Jaxon and his mommy. (Thanks to Lacee for taking all the pics, by the way!)

You were in the water for about 45 minutes total. At first you really did not know what to make of it. You just kept quickly looking all around the room trying to take everything in and figure out what was going on. I held you all sorts of ways and played all kinds of little games with you to see if I could get any kind of reaction. You didn't smile or laugh, but you also didn't fuss or cry, so I guess you thought it was acceptable. Once I took you out of the water, you finally started to show some reaction! I was holding you against me in a towel to warm up, and you kept twisting to be able to look at the pool. So finally I decided maybe you wanted to get back in, so we went back for another 15 minutes. When we got back in you started to smile a little bit and even giggle and talk some! So I guess you decided you liked it! I held you around your ribs and you would flop your bottom half around without moving your head or arms. It was so funny!

You in your "rubber pants" we bought at the rec center to go over your Little Swimmers diaper (which was Finding Nemo themed, in case you're curious)

After a while we decided you boys were tired so we went back to the locker room where I held you under a warm shower to rinse off, which you LOVED. You kept opening your mouth to catch the shower drops and didn't mind getting misted in the face. Then I got you changed into warm clothes and we headed home. Both you and Jaxon fell asleep within about 2 minutes and slept for about an hour and a half each. Just totally zonked from the swim!

We will definitely go back soon - and next time we're taking Daddy to see how much fun you have there!

(afternote: Mommy got very sick a couple days later with Cryptospiridium from our pool adventure. Thank goodness you were fine!)