Jumping Jellyfish!

Noah came in laughing today about the Backyardigans and how Tyron said, "Jumping Jellyfish!", so I had to use that as my title of today's entry. I had a bunch of jumping jellyfish today! All that hard work paid off today as we went both to swim lessons and to the Marseilles pool. We practiced for an hour last night in the bathtub (as you'll read below) about putting our faces and heads in the water. Well, today, Madie and Noah did a great job! Madie practiced swimming with her face in the water the whole time and didn't freak out. She even put her face in to pick out different rings. And, Noah kept showing off to his instructor Adam that he too could put his face in the water. He was practicing swimming back and forth along the wall all by himself. Granted, he's not going to the Olympics anytime soon, but hey, it was a start! Then Adam had him try and jump in the water from the side of the pool. Thanks to his cousin Trevor's awesome diving board experience the other day, I reminded Noah of how Trevor was scared at first, but faced his fears and jumped in. So, Noah did it and never looked back! He must've jumped to Adam 6 times during swim lessons and did it again MANY times at the Marseilles pool. I was really proud of all of them. Livie had a hard time at first, because she's my water girl. She absolutely LOVES swimming and didn't like sitting on the sidelines while Madie and Noah got to swim. She had to sit with Pete and watch. But, once they were done, we all headed to the Marseilles pool and were there for nearly 2 hours, so she was much happier after that. She watched Noah jump in the pool several times and wanted to try it herself. She LOVED it and she would have us take her to the ladder and she'd crawl out and before we'd get over to her to catch her, she'd be crouched down, on the edge, ready to go! We played water tag and tried to swim to the rope. It was great! We didn't even get home until after 7. And, of course, in Marseilles fashion we arrived to a house with no electricity! But, we didn't care. We had a great time and that's all that mattered. :-)

**By the way, the first few pictures were taken at Mrs. Palmer's house where we have swim lessons and the last several pictures are at the Marseilles pool. They have a great pool in this town. Not much else, but definitely a great pool! It's usually not that crowded and they just redid the whole thing a couple of years ago. We always have a great time there. :-)