We are such geeks.

[kyrielle]

So, last night from 5-10, Drew's daycare did a special session the kids could go to for an extra fee - a "pajama party" while parents had a nice night out for Valentine's weekend.

We took Drew. And then we came home and played World of Warcraft, cooked beans, and did laundry. LOL. The date part was WoW - we hardly ever dare to do anything like an instance any more, even a short one, as they're all too likely to be interrupted. It was fun! Silly, but fun.

Also yesterday we got Drew new shoes - he does need them for if he's outside as he does stand and cruise and will presumably toddle soon - which went surprisingly well. He likes his new shoes. Alas, he shut a thumb in a toy at the shoe store. No damage done except that he was VERY unhappy for a little bit.

I let him have a bit of my (unsalted) soft pretzel. He promptly leaned over and tore off a section about 2 inches long. LOL! I guess he likes pretzel, and I guess I should be better prepared to protect mine. ;)

Then we went to the YMCA swimming pool. We skipped the lesson this morning and will for the rest of this session. He is getting too upset at them. Instead we'll go during open/family swims. Early in the baby lesson they put them on their back. He hates it. And he hates being forced at their pace. And the lessons are pretty much ON his morning nap time. He was starting to dislike water and not trust us. So we took him in the afternoon - he slept in the car and when he woke we took him in and swam. He was VERY wary for a minute or so until he realized he wasn't having to do anything he didn't want to, and there wasn't a circle of parents-and-babies, and hey look the water bubblers and splashers are running and there are bigger kids and things to watch....

We stayed in for about 45 minutes and you could just see him unwind over the first 15 until he was having a total blast. And we still practiced lots of swimming stuff (kicks, splashes, blowing bubbles, climbing out) - we just didn't force, we coaxed, and we didn't flip him on his back. That'll come in time. For now, I'm glad to have his trust back in us in the water.

Comments

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

So very smart to make sure he doesn't get to hating the water!!! Heck, he can turn onto his back whenever he is ready even if he is 12!!!

As long as the fear is gone, you are doing fine.

Go Drew!!

[kyrielle]

:) He was having a total blast by the end of that, thank goodness. It IS important for them to learn to like being on their backs, because that's the easiest float position, which for safety is good to learn. However...if all it's doing is upsetting him, he's not learning it, and it's interfering with everything else.

[canyoncat.livejournal.com]

I don;t understand why they want to force him on his back if he obviously doesn't like it. Your pace sounds much nicer.

[kyrielle]

Because it's a class, and they do set things, and they don't change it for one baby - given the divergent personalities of babies, nothing would get done if they did. It's just a bad thing all around that one of the earliest items in the order upsets him lots. And I understand why they want to get him on his back - for safety learning - because a back float is easy-peasy once you're willing to be on your back in the water. Unfortunately, by the time we learned he wouldn't tolerate it, he'd generalized his dislike to the whole class approach, and even simply holding him upright while everyone else was on their backs made him upset.