Today we enjoyed a rather lenghtly visit to our friends house where Matteo swam in her in-ground ool (swanky) for no less than 4 hours!!! Mommy was so proud of him - - this was Matteo's first real time swimming in a ool - he used his arm floaties (though one was deflated a bit I think this helped him learn to keep himself up better) - Matteo enjoyed jumping off the sides of the ool very much and really did an excellent job swimming...ironically I was saddened we were entering the summer season without him knowing to swim and was going to sign him up for swim lessons in the Fall, however given the challenge of wanting to be in the deep end with the other kids (and i mean DEEP end) - Matteo rose to the occasion and really made me proud :-)
I guess if you give a child enough space they will learn from watching others..........
PS - in ccase you are not familiar ... an "ool" is a "pool" without the "p" - just a funny little sign at the "ool" we were in today. I hope we left it the way we found it haha.
what an awesome way to kick off summer!!!!!! Hooray for ools!!!
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