In Over His Head

This week the pool water finally got to the appropriate Bobby temperature.  This means, hours of swimming a day, mostly spent in the evening.  We have been working on Bobby's actual swimming.  When he went to a special needs swim class a couple of years ago, the first thing to work on was sticking his face in the water.  He had no interest in participating in this task, yet we knew that he didn't have a problem with getting his face wet since he jumps into the deep waters.  Daddy started working with Bobby in putting his face into the water.  It started out with Bob holding Bobby's nose and getting him under....

Who could have ever predicted that Bobby would LOVE this!!  He went over to his Daddy numerous times, grabbed Daddy's hand and put it up to his nose and had Daddy push his head under the water.  What child likes this???  No crying, no flipping out...instead having Daddy do this over and over.

They took a little break to do some water ballet...

Back to shoving Bobby's head in the water!!!

If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes, I'm not sure that I would have believed that he really "liked" this, let alone LOVED it!!!

Grandma came over to visit and got in the pool too.  If she can't move tomorrow, here's why....

For some reason she decided to throw him.  Hey Grandma, he doesn't weigh 40 pounds anymore!!  Of course Bobby loved this too and wanted Grandma to throw him over and over.

Daddy, throw me too...

And then.....Bobby decided that he could put his head under the water with no help...

We were all shocked and he kept on doing this over and over and over (like he does with most things that he likes).

Then he would just jump high out of the water...

Time to get on the boogie board...

A perfect family fun evening!!