Swimming!

the exclamation is there because when annie talks about swimming! it is always with this level of excitement! in her voice as though she just discovered a new dora toy or something.

so we started swimming lessons on monday.

i was a little worried because if you know annie, you know she sometimes has a little bit of the stranger anxiety. she is often game to do anything, until you tell her to go do it with the other kids or go do it with that strange adult over there and then she shuts down.

she had been talking about swimming lessons like it was the greatest thing that was going to happen to her. we remember how much she loves the water. i mean, look at her from last summer. she loves it. as we walked outside to get in the car to go to the first lesson she ran out in the driveway and said, "mommy! it's a lovely day for swimming lessons!"

seriously, she really said that.

we get to the pool and at first she sort of stayed real close because it was a strange place with lots of strange people, but she saw all the kids swimming and she was like "i want to go swimming now!" and i said "we have to wait for your teacher" and she kind of looked at me like "huh?" but she seemed ok with it.

when it came time for her to go with her teacher over to the pool, they call the kids names and then we parents give them over to the teacher for the next half hour. annie marched right up to her teacher, grabbed her hand and never even looked back at me.

for the next half hour she was laughing, giggiling and talking away with her strange teacher and 3 other strange kids. it was amazing. and it was no fluke, because when we went back on wednesday she was even more excited, almost to the point of psychotic.

and don't even get me started on what she thought of the diving board.