After last spring's success with swimming lessons and our summer full of swimming at various places, I was so excited to start up fall lessons. No more Water Babies, we now met the criteria for Water Tots! Our first class was a few weeks ago and I showed up seeing lots of moms and tots who were previously in Water Babies with us. I was chatting them up about how well Mason did in the water over the summer and with water wings and blah blah blah. The instructor arrived indicating we could enter the pool and thus began the worst 15 minutes I've experienced in a public place with a toddler. Mason screamed, cried, kicked, didn't want me to touch him and every bad thing you could imagine until I was dying of embarrassment and on the verge of tears myself and we left half way through the class. I'm sure this is just the start of the terrible twos but I was also feeling like this was my punishment for all the bragging about my expert swimmer.
I'm relieved and happy to report that the past two weeks have gone a millions times better. I think after all the independence of the water wings, Mason didn't want to have to be held anymore. He's such a big boy! He's also back to being a top performer in his class...not bragging, it's a fact!
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