Mallory has been INSANE with her swimming development the past two weekends. Just yesterday she started jumping off the side to me and then swimming about 7’ under water to reach me. I can’t get over how much fear she’s let go of in just two weeks. She bosses my mom around all over the pool, telling her to be the nice shark. Mallory is also diving down to the bottom of the shallow end (as well as her still-covered-in-baby-fat-body will let her sink!).
Mallory told me yesterday that she would jump off the diving board but Rick told me I wasn’t allowed to unless I could record it or he could be there. So my mom & I took the kids back to the pool today (an hour after the tornado warning expired) and Rick met up with us.
Here is the video. I think I say “ow!” or something when Mallory hits the water because I was *sure* she was going to scream from her belly-flop, but she saved that for her second trip off the board, and we won’t share that video.
It’s long, but worth it.
I realize that it’s my fault because I told her to fall in like she does off the side of the pool, but I didn’t know how to make sure she jumped away from the board. But she really really liked it the first time. Next weekend, when her cousins are there and can show her more how its done, we’ll hopefully try again, because her second jump ended with horribly red thighs from where she smacked the water. I’m such a horrible mom.
I want to do that again Daddy is PRECIOUS… You’re not horrible, she is going to do that all by herself, without coaching :-)
That is so great! Rick was so excited he came zooming up on his cart while I was watching Trisitn at camp to tell me all about it! :)
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