PART FISH

Tobin fears nothing, we've covered this point before. It gets a bit scary when we're around a pool though.

These boys love the pool, and their wonderful mommy brings them often. We shove their water wings on their arms and away they go.

Last night we went to a private pool nearby, that's not as busy as the other pools around. The boys were having a great time and were all over the place. One thing Tobin likes doing is jumping off the edge and into my arms. I generally let him submerge a bit to get used to the water on his face, and holding his breath - he does great with this.

Well then he runs around to the deep end, taking off his water wings along the way. I'm frantically trying to swim across to where he's going. He gets to the ladder, and starts lowering himself in!! I was there, and held him, but he wanted me to let him go, so he could do it on his own.

Crazy kid! He doesn't just want to try floating all on his own power in the shallow end, that'd be for girls. He races to the deep end to go all out. Go big or go home, eh?

I let him try treading for a second here and there. He'd grab my arm after a couple quick seconds - probably not that long even - of trying his own bouancy. We eventually went back to the shallow. There, he surprised us further by kicking and swimming a couple feet between Kristen and I!!! We were so excited. We still couldn't get Blane to try any of this, we'll be getting him in lessons soon...