This weekend we decided to give the Baby her first taste of solid food… if you can call rice cereal mixed with water “real” food. At first, she was confused about what exactly we wanted her to do with the foreign substance we had put in her mouth… But, being a cooperative, trusting sort of…
The Spouse has started a new fitness regimen this summer. Whenever he has a chance to get to the gym, he likes to swim laps. And, on the weekends, the Preschooler thinks it’s great fun to sit on the bleachers and watch him swim the lanes. Hopefully, this will encourage her in her own swimming…
The Preschooler’s swim lessons are going much better than expected this year. Her instructor this go-round seems to have had a lot of experience with young children and makes the lessons fun from start to finish. Each week the Preschooler looks forward to going… so much so, that she insists on putting her swimsuit on…
My mom was determined that my siblings and I would learn to swim at a young age. Therefore, I went through all the swimming classes at the local YMCA beginning in infancy with the parent/child classes and eventually graduating to the ones with the fun names: Eel, Polliwog, Minnow, Guppy, and so on. While I…