Little fish

In the Fall I looked and looked for a good swimming program for Daniel. We tried a few before settling on Atlanta Swim Academy. If you live in Roswell or Marietta, I highly recommend it. Unfortunately, we were able to take only one lesson before Daniel's chronic ear infection started. And after he got the tubes, he had a sinus infection. So it was not until last week that I was able to go to the pool and get our lessons restarted. I took Daniel by myself for our first class, and it was wonderful (no picture from that one since I was in the water with Daniel and I do not want anybody to see me in my swim suit anyway ;-) ).

My mother is an avid swimmer, she is one of the best swimmers I know. Even before Daniel was born she talked about the importance of swimming for babies. She emailed me a bunch of articles advocating early introduction of babies to water. So I thought it was only fair to let her take Daniel swimming. Our swimming pool has a "one child - one parent only in the water" policy, so I stayed on the edge of the pool and took about a hundred pictures. I am going to have to restrain myself from posting too many :)

Our little boy is just like his mommy - loves the water:

"I want to jump in again, but first I need to get out":

"Here I go":

"I can swim AND check all the girls out":

Another attempt at getting out of the pool:

My mum grabbed a noodle from the side of the pool and Daniel would swim around without being supported, it just might be that we have a Michael Phelps in the making :) (I wish!)

There are bubbles everywhere, everywhere...

there are bubbles in the air, in the air... Since Daniel was born I ALWAYS have a baby song stuck in my head and the bubbles song is the latest one. I guess this happens to everybody but that does not make it any less annoying If any of you are not familiar with it, it comes from the Gymboree class that Daniel and I go to.

And here is Daniel taking his first bubble bath:

Doesn't he look EXACTLY like his Grandmother Monnie in this picture?

All is well!

Today I took Daniel for his 8 week post-operative check-up with the ENT. Daniel got his ear-tubes back in early December. His ears look good, the tubes are in place, and his hearing is back to normal. This means that we can go back to the swimming pool. I signed Daniel up for swimming lessons in October and we managed to go for only one lesson before Daniel got 5-weeks long ear infection(s) which culminated in the surgery. Daniel loves the water! He loves baths and he enjoyed the swimming pool very much. Here are a couple of videos that were taken in October. Sorry for the quality - they were taken with a cell phone.