We went swimming today. Charles spent most of the time jumping in to the water. He started at the shallow pool (which varies from 8” to 18” deep). Sometimes he’d jump by himself but other times he insisted that Dad hold his hand as he jumped. My biggest concern was that he might fall backwards and bang his head on the edge of the pool but he managed all of his jumps without a concussion.
Next he moved on to the intermediate pool and spent some time jumping off the edge of that. Eventually (of course right after Corwin went over) Charles moved up to the main pool. I managed to give Charles a bit of a work out in addition to my own by making him walk up the stairs and around for each jump rather than lifting him up to the edge. It also gave me a few moments to recuperate between jumps.
Charles didn’t spend the entire time jumping. We chased big brother down the length of the big pool one until Corwin went off to jump off the diving board. We also hit the snack bar because Mom had only fed Corwin once for lunch. Corwin managed to get pizza sauce all over himself (on his face, arms and chest). We popped back in the pool for a bit afterwards but a thunderstorm rolled in so we headed home, just a jump ahead of the storm.