Swimming

We decided it was time to give swimming with Tyler another try after Tyler repeatedly played in the fountain, even splashing himself in the face, on a recent trip to the mall. We headed to the indoor pool this morning and found Tyler to still be very traumatized by the pool. He tolerated being in the pool for about an hour but we never once saw him crack a smile. Tyler cried when Michael and I tried to get him to stand in the shallow end that is only one-foot deep. We did get Tyler to sit in an infant float and he seemed to like that okay. Most of the time Tyler clung to either Michael or I with a death grip. As we got changed out of our swimsuits, Tyler kept talking about swimming: "Tyler swim. Mommy swim. Daddy swim." Then out of the blue at dinner tonight Tyler said, "Swim. Fun." Well you could have fooled us!