Water babies
Sabrina and Tessa have been in heaven this weekend. Not only are Grandma and Pap-pap visiting but they are staying at a hotel with a pool.
The pool has provided yet another opportunity to marvel at the differences in my girls. They both love the pool.
Sabrina, almost 4, is very cautious. She hates getting water in her face. When she gets water in her face, she pitches a fit. (Hehe…listen to me sounding like a southern momma: “pitching a fit”.) She spends her time in the pool playing with the grown ups. She wants to get out and “jump” (really more like be lifted) back into the pool. This has all remained pretty steady since the first time we put her in a pool (around 11 months old).
Tessa, almost 2, is fearless. She enjoyed the pool last year when Grandma and Pap-pap visited. This year, she likes it but she has no patience for the flotation devices. The child thinks she should be free to swim around on her own. She tried to lunge out of my arms several times today. She threw a small fit when we put her in her floatie. When we had her in our arms, she would maneuver to be on her stomach with her arms and legs moving to swim. I’ve never seen a child so young mimic swimming like that. We held up her tummy and she tried to swim around. She didn’t mind putting her face in the water and when she jumped off the side of the pool she got upset that we insisted on holding her the whole way instead of letting her leap and catching her. The child terrifies me with her lack of fear. We couldn’t let her off our laps on the pool deck for fear she would jump in.
It is fun watching them so delighted with something as simple as a pool. And they have been sleeping so wonderfully!