In the swim of things
It’s been really hot lately! So yesterday morning my mommy packed up a bag full of big towels and some toys and sunscreen (yuck!) and we went over to Katil’s place to play in the pool there - and it was FUN! I’ve never really done more than the plastic kiddie pool thing up till now (I have a neat purple one with penguins on it!), but this was a really big grownup pool, which is completely different. There are certain rules that come with a grownup pool: you can only go in with a grownup, and if you walk around the edge of it, you have to stay right by Mommy. Still very exciting though!
First we pulled out these big long plastic chairs, and lay our towels out on them (my towel had a dinosaur on it!). Then Mommy put my swim pants on, and totally slathered me in sunscreen! Then Katil got into the pool and swam around a bit, and THEN Mommy got out a ball for me to play catch with with Katil! I would throw or kick it to her in the pool, and then Katil would dive for it and throw it back! While we did that, Mommy sat on the edge of the pool with her feet in the water, on the top step. She asked me if I wanted to try it too, and after a while I got brave enough and sat there with her and dunked my feet! I felt very grownup - and the water was nice and cool! The neat thing about swimming pools is that you can kick and splash water at your mom there, which you sure don’t get to do in the bathtub!
Pretty soon Tully showed up too, and then I had TWO people to play pool games with! Finally, Katil asked me if I wanted to try getting in the water, and she would carry me. I decided to try it - and I loved it! So Katil and Tully took turns swishing me around and carrying me in the water, and I never wanted to get out! But we finally did - we went and sat on our towels on those big plastic chairs, and I ate some raisins and made animal sounds for Tully while we dried off and enjoyed the sun. Then I grabbed Mommy’s cell phone and pretended to call people - that made Katil laugh (can’t figure out why - I’m just doin’ what I see my folks do!). I wanted to go back in the water after that, but Mommy said it was time to go home and have my lunch. She bribed me with peach - darn but that woman knows my weaknesses!
Can’t wait to go back to the pool again very soon! And Mommy and Daddy say next year I get to take swim lessons! And Mommy says she might take some too! (I have to admit, she looked pretty funny trying to swim - my aunts said something about “a cat in the water”?).