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I should actually be working right now, but I'm having a hard time getting motivated. So I thought I'd write about our adventures getting Miss Eleanor interested in swimming.
We had a baby pool that we used all of once with her last year. She didn't seem to mind it that once and she does indeed love to take a bath so I figured the pool would be a no brainer. Not so much. She screamed when I sat us both down in it. It had been out in the sun all day, but was definitely colder than a bath so perhaps that was it. We tried again the next day with John and she was still very wary. During our garage sale a couple weeks later, we put the pool out with some toys to see if she would potentially play with it from outside the pool. With some help from one of the girls next door, she did find that interesting. So we've been working our way up to it. She will now climb in and out of it and she is also fairly pleased with the Sesame Street sprinkler mat I picked up recently.
We also went to the neighborhood pool. She definitely needed to warm up to the wading pool, but liked the toys they had there. We then took her into the big pool. John held her and she seemed a little fearful at first, but she appeared to like it quite a bit and was content to stay in there for a while, unlike her usual stance on the wading pool. This works for me because once it gets above 75 degrees, the only way I'm really going outside is if I get to be wet. Climbing in and out of the wading pool wasn't such a great option so I'm more than happy to just swim around the regular pool with her for a while.
We had a baby pool that we used all of once with her last year. She didn't seem to mind it that once and she does indeed love to take a bath so I figured the pool would be a no brainer. Not so much. She screamed when I sat us both down in it. It had been out in the sun all day, but was definitely colder than a bath so perhaps that was it. We tried again the next day with John and she was still very wary. During our garage sale a couple weeks later, we put the pool out with some toys to see if she would potentially play with it from outside the pool. With some help from one of the girls next door, she did find that interesting. So we've been working our way up to it. She will now climb in and out of it and she is also fairly pleased with the Sesame Street sprinkler mat I picked up recently.
We also went to the neighborhood pool. She definitely needed to warm up to the wading pool, but liked the toys they had there. We then took her into the big pool. John held her and she seemed a little fearful at first, but she appeared to like it quite a bit and was content to stay in there for a while, unlike her usual stance on the wading pool. This works for me because once it gets above 75 degrees, the only way I'm really going outside is if I get to be wet. Climbing in and out of the wading pool wasn't such a great option so I'm more than happy to just swim around the regular pool with her for a while.
