Swimming

I finally braved taking the girls swimming without Ben.  I've been trying to talk Ben into taking the girls swimming for weeks/months and he has just not been into it, plus we have been super busy.  I was ecstatic/a bit nervous about taking them by myself when Trisha suggested the idea this week.  I figured now was as good of a time as ever so I tagged along as Trish took her 3 kids swimming.

The girls absolutely loved it!  When we first entered the indoor swimming area, Savannah of course had a meltdown because it was LOUD and she was scared.  I ended up carrying her to where Trish and her kids were getting ready and I finally convinced her that it would be fun to go into the pool.    I got their floaties on and we followed Trish and Ari into the kiddie area, while Zach and Halle played in the bigger pool area.

This place was awesome they had small slides for the kids and once I got the girls to try the slide once they thought it was fantastic.  We did have a slight hiccup, when Eve wanted to go down one of the bigger slides in the kiddie area and kind of face planted into the water when she got to the end of the slide.  I don't think she went on another kid slide after that....we'll have to work on that next time.  It kind of scared her.

Savannah on the other hand noticed that they had a BIG yellow slide and she REALLY wanted to go down it.  Trish said that they would let me take her down so I did.  We went all the way up and I went with her down the slide and she thought it was FANTASTIC and wanted to go again.  We reached the top of the slide to go down the second time and the slide attendant/life guard asked me if I was pregnant.  I guess you are not supposed to go down the slide if you are pregnant.  I didn't know that so Sav and I went back down the stairs to see if Aunt Trisha would take Sav down the slide as I was unable to.   Sav was VERY disappointed that we didn't go down the slide again and she didn't understand why Aunt Trisha wouldn't take her immediately.  (I realized after the fact that Sav never went down the BIG yellow slide again, bad mom.  I'll fix that next time, it was just too hectic and Trish had taken enough kiddles down the big yellow slide. ) Trish had been supervising/watching Eve and Ari and keeping her eye out for Zach and Halle, to say the least she had her hands full and needed another pair of eyes.

Later Trish took Eve down the big yellow slide and of course Eve loved it!  I told the girls we would have to come back another time when I wasn't pregnant so I could take them down the slide OR that we would have to convince Daddy to come with us.

Savannah loved playing in the lazy river, which is just a slow current.  Trish even helped them work on their floating skills with their floaties!  They loved floating!  They aren't as dare devilish as Ari, but for them it was a HUGE step to want to float in the water without holding onto someone.  Eve was super mad when we had to leave to head home.  She didn't understand why we couldn't play some more in the water.

When they got home they told Dad all about the big slide and the pool and floating!  Eve asked today if she could go swimming again.  She was disappointed when I told her that Dad had banned me from taking the girls swimming alone until the baby is born.  I told her we would have to go swimming again once the baby is born.  I haven't quite figured out how I am going to do this.  I may still have to convince Ben to go with us or recruit another adult to come.

Ben's insurance with his new job, which is much better and cheaper than our current insurance, does not kick in until April 1st, thus Ben doesn't want me to have the baby before then.  Apparently he thinks taking the girls swimming by myself is not a good idea (even though I wasn't by myself but I was with Trish, I guess that doesn't count 5 kids to 2 adults).  He thinks I shouldn't do anything too strenuous until after April 1st so that I won't go into labor.  We'll see how that theory works but I will try to appease him as it would be nice to not pay as much when we have the baby.  I guess time will tell. :)

Thanks Trish for inviting us!  We'll have to go again.  I'm not sure how long I can hold off the girls!