Yesterday evening Corwin had his first swim team practice. Last year we had him in swimming lessons for the summer, but there’s basically only one set of lessons. As a result, Mom signed him up for the next level, the swim team. He’ll have practices 6 days a week until the end of July. These will be primarily during the day so Erica (poor, deluded Erica) will be taking him most of the time. We probably won’t do soccer this summer because we don’t want Corwin to have too much scheduled time. He does soccer in the spring and fall and in the summer, I think swimming will be a lot more pleasant.
I’m a bit concerned about Erica having to watch Charles and Alice as well, but I did that myself last night and it wasn’t too bad (and if I can do it, it should be a breeze for Erica). I hadn’t bothered to put Charles in to a swimsuit, which turned out to be a mistake. In the future, I’ll suit him up and put him in the wading pool, which gets all of 18” deep at the deep end so Charles should be fine without minimal supervision. He was mostly happy this time just pouring water in and out of the pool, so splashing around in it should work well.