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Swim Bubbs, Swim!

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

So I was tooling around the internet the other day and I found this:

I couldn’t believe my eyes!  For shiz, that baby SAVED HIS OWN LIFE.  And all of a sudden my desire for Camper to swim went up like a million kajillion degrees.  Obviously, he’s only  months old, but it doesn’t hurt to try, right?

Cut to YMCA pool, day one.  I jumped into the pool and La La handed me my darling child, who commenced screaming.  It was as if I had just told him that we’ve gone broke and sold the bathtub, and this is where we are doing tubby time now.  Sigh.  I let him sit on the side with his La La for a bit while I tried to swim around and show him how fun it was.  We DID get him into the water, but it took 30 minutes and he was pretty clingy the entire time.

Cut to YMCA pool, day two.  As soon as I walked into the pool area, he started leaning and bouncing and effectively trying to fling himself into the pool.  He went underwater twice with no tears, kicked around and “swam” around with Pop pop and Mommy.  Good times.

So we’re working on basic skills, like blowing bubbles and kicking our feet.  It’s a good time, although a little tiring.  But really, if I can help my baby love the water and make sure he knows what he’s doing…however long it takes it’s worth it.

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Swimmy Scoundrals and Other Complete Misses

Friday, June 26th, 2009

So my Mom and I wanted “something to do” this afternoon.  We didn’t want to spend money, so we did some investigative work instead.  What I learned was:

Pools are expensive, yo.  Even the one I THOUGHT was $35 a year is apparently $35 before they will allow me to pay the $44 for eight swim classes.  Seriously, I ask of you, what is my 9 month old child going to RETAIN from a “class”? I’m sure he’ll always remember that the woman named Patty in the red swimsuit taught him to blow bubbles and kick his legs.  He’s not at the age where you can tell him, “Kick your legs.”  I’m not even sure if he knows that those things dangling from his torso are CALLED legs.  So that’s $35 + $44 + a pain in my rear.

But if I want to JUST have a pool membership for him so that I can go try to get him to kick his legs on my own, it’s $35 + MORE money for me to go in with him.  Because I am a separate person.  Neveryoumind that if I put him in the water alone he will DROWN to DEATH.  Extortion I tell you.

The other places are all quite a bundle for a “season pass.”  I’m not sure I’ll go enough to make use of a multi-hundred dollar season pass.  I just want to pay a reasonable amount of money to take my child and dip him in a large(ish) body of water once a week so that he learns to swim. We’re talking…20 minutes a pop.

Arg.

What do YOU do for swimmy time with your pre-toddler?  I think I may have to just go to the beach.  I can walk from my Auntie’s house and then it’s FREE.  Except for all the chocolate soft-serve…And the two and a half hour drive…

Oh, and PS!  I am totally shocked at the lack of playgroups in my immediate area.  The only one I found was 45 minutes away.  I thought there might be some “unadvertised” groups at the local churches.  So I hit a few up.  The Church of Christ (or whatever that castley one is…) told me to go to the Methodists, who told me “We don’t have anything like that,” and they both told me the Episcopalian congregation around these parts is rather elderly.  There weren’t any Catholics around today (except for one, he was praying, we did not interrupt) and so now I’m back where I started.  No swimming.  No playgroups.  Watch there be a swinging toddler scene at the Episcopalian Church and I’m missing out because I was told they were too old and I couldn’t find their “come on in and visit us” door.

Arg again.

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And that’s how I feel about that.

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The Mom Suit

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

So, I’ve been looking for a bathing suit for quite a long time.  I used to think that my body shape was way different than most people (and it still might be), but I’ve figured out that it’s not so much me as much as it is that “THEY” seem to make one type of suit.  For non-Moms (and by non-Mom I mean a woman who has never had a child stretch her body to the max) with no boobs.

Target, Old Navy, WalMart…WHAT are you thinking???

Anyway.  I finally found out that Lands End seems to fit and be comfy, and after trying some different suits I finally settled on the plainest, cheapest option.

Welcome to the Mom Suit:

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The tugless tank, I got it in black.  It is simple, comfortable, is even long enough for my super-long torso without ordering the long size.   You can custom order it so it fits you- and is simple enough to wear with some swim shorts, which I got a la EMS.

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I think they are very cute and modest, and I can get right into the water in them.  They look pretty nice with the plain, black suit.  And for everyone out there still trying to look “cute’ while swimming, I’ve give up.  I realize that this is seriously not a “cute” swim look.  The shorts are fun, the suit is comfortable…and for now…that might just have to work.  All I know is that when I take the Bubbs swimming for the first time, I don’t want to worry about my swimsuit falling down.  Mission accomplished.

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