Timmy learned to swim today!

Ok, so I don’t have any pictures of him doing it (yet) cause you have no idea what a fiasco it is lugging the "good" camera down to the beach. And the pool at the beach club is the only "big" pool he’s allowed to go into with swimmy diapers. Anyway, he’s been going in to the pool every beach day with either John or myself, wearing a swim vest. He was doing OK, just enjoying being in the pool, but sinking even though wearing the vest or flipping over (saying "slippery" while doing it). So we really couldn’t let go of him, even though he would push away from us. But…today he got it. He can totally swim by himself without holding on (of course, still wearing the vest). He loves going back and forth to the stairs. He jumps into the pool from the side yelling "cannonball"- just like the big boys. He even went under a few times and even though he didn’t really LIKE being under, he didn’t cry or anything. So brave! Nelson and I were talking about the difference we saw in the big boys when they were first starting to swim and Timmy, and I said it was night and day (they used to be really scared of the pool until they were tall enough to stand-they would scream if they went under like someone was cutting off a leg). Nel’s reply…it’s like night and marbles. That’s how different. I guess having the big boys to emulate and seeing how much they like it makes it a lot easier for Timmy. And he totally KNEW he was doing it alone- he had this big, proud smile on his face everytime he swam. And yelled out "I did it!!!". So cool.