Super-Flying Pool Boy and Aqua-Chick

The place we are staying this week has a great swimming pool. The kids have loved it. We spend on average 3-4 hours a day in the water.

Over the last few days it has been really great to see the kids confidence in and around the water growing. My son is now known in my mind as Super-Flying Pool Boy. He loves to jump from the edge of the pool into the water, and even jumps from 3 foot high wall at one end into the pool. He jumps really high and far out into the pool when he does these jumps. He is working on teaching himself how to swim using proper strokes too. Very fun to see him gaining confidence in this area.

My daughter is now known in my mind as Aqua-Chick. She was a bit more timid at first, which is a real switch. Normally she is the fearless one. But she is 22 months younger, and not yet 4, so she has every right to be a little timid. She also has not spent as much time around the water as the boy. However, she has gained so much confidence this week. She now walks into the deep pool, and walks out to the point where she is on tip-toes and her head is tipped back to allow her chin and mouth to be out of the water, just barely. She tip-toes around the pool like that with surprising speed. In the kids’ pool she is also quite confident and now more than happy to put her face into the water, etc.


I love seeing the kids grow in their confidence and abilities. Swimming was something that was a big part of who I was as a kid and I love that my kids might also have a love of the water.