azurelunatic | Success!!

Somebody's afraid of water. But guess who started swimming, or at least attempting to swim, today, on his very own!! He'd been sticking to the long shelf that runs the length of the shallow end, and occasionally venturing down the step to stand at the edge, and lately he'd been dangling his feet over but scootching back...

I'd been pretending not to notice, because he was doing it so quietly that he didn't want anyone to notice, so I was actually taken by surprise today when I had to shoo him out of the pool filter ... and then realized where he was.

I think it was the goggles that did it; now he's not afraid to get his face a little wet. Either that, or I refused to let him take the floaties off until he learned to swim really well, and I told him this in great detail.

Mommy doesn't know yet. We'll let her know when she comes home from work. She's going to be so happy!