In the Pool Again

Preschool is out. Summer is here. A month early. Thus...the return to swimming lessons.

This week Kiernan returned to the swimming school he attended last year. I was a little nervous about this as we have not had him in the water much since then. I guess I worried about regression. He was so afraid and miserable the first day of his first swim class last year. This was partly because we had not adequately prepared him for it mentally, and partly because he'd never really been in the water without one of his parents. That first class was miserable. He adjusted in rather short order, but I wondered if there would be a regression since swimming is not a regular part of his life. Unfortunately.

I needn't have worried. He was excited about going back into the pool, and about being in a swim class with his friend Sam, and about showing his swim teacher Leticia his missing tooth. He went back into the water without hesitation. It felt like a week had passed since his last class, rather than many months.

He's doing great in the class. Clearly loving it. I love watching him interact with his swim teacher and his other two classmates, Sam and a lovely girl named Sabrina. Sam and Sabrina in the pool with Kiernan. Sounds like a sitcom.

It's so cool to sit outside the pool and watch him. We're there but not really there. So we can see him being his own person. Asking questions and stating his opinions. Disclosing important information to his swim teacher about his dinner plans with Sam. Making jokes. Jokes. One of my great new joys in life is watching the development of my son's sense of humor. Hilarious. And fascinating.