The Little Merman
Saturday, March 29th, 2008I took my 18-month old son, Sam, swimming for the first time yesterday, and he took to it like…, well, like a boy who discovers he likes swimming a lot. Not that he did that much swimming, to be fair, it was more floating in daddy’s arms. But, considering the largest amount of water he’d ever been near previously was his bath, he splashed and kicked happily, and even put his face in the water a few times.
We’ll be going every week from now on. I’m a very happy daddy today!
Tommy
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March 30th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Awww! Glad to hear it went well. Apparently if you chuck a relatively newborn baby into water, then it will instinctively swim.
Didn’t have the nerve to try it with mine, in case he proved to be the exception. Sam’s probably too old for the swimming instinct to kick in, too, so best keep a hold of him in the water for now.
Course, six weeks from now he’ll be doing widths.