I don’t know how to swim yet!
This is our second summer of swim lessons with Miss Suzi, who is a wonderful kids swim instructor. I took the kids this morning – both were super excited to hop in the pool and get going. Because Allison is now 3, she was able to join the class for bigger kids and Katherine. They started with kick board work and ended with the diving board. Katherine went first off the diving board, falling into the pool in diving position with Miss Suzi holding her. The instructor then backed up 20-30 feet for the next two kids, who dived off the board and swam to her. Next…we all heard Allison pipe up in her 3 year old voice, “I don’t know how to swim yet!!” The instructor then swam up to her, and she fell into the pool in diving position with assistance.
Allison’ sense of humor continues to be very quirky and unpredictable. The girls and I were working this afternoon on their workbooks. Allison flipped to a page that required her to know her vowels. The conversation went like this:
Mom: Allison, you know your vowels right?
Allison: No…
Mom: <starts to sing the AEIOU song from Leapfrog> AEIOU, we’re the vowels, we’re the glue, we stick words together, we’re very sticky letters
Allison: AEKIOU, We’re the vowels, we’re the glue
Mom: You mean I not K, right?
Allison: I can change the vowel song, can’t I?
Mom and Katherine: Uh No!!!
What else? Allison and Katherine are so excited to play with the neighbors’ kids. As a result, they can get rather zealous in their recruitment of other kids for playtime. Case in point…I was cleaning up after dinner tonight while Steve was watching the kids. I went outside to find Steve in the garage, Katherine on the driveway, and Allison’s bike next to the neighbors driveway. I ran across the street and found Allison standing in front of the neighbors door asking, “can you come out to play with us??”
Their favorite activity is biking up the cul-de-sac near our house and then zipping down the hill at full speed. Katherine is thankfully in control of her bike and uses her brakes well. Allison has decided the best way to descend the hill is to barrel down the hill full speed and then come to a screeching halt at the bottom of the hill. It’s just heart stopping…