Okay, finally some swim-time action!
Here Noa demonstrates how eager she is to swim on her own.
Actually, one new thing she really enjoyed this weekend was swimming back and forth between Ben and myself. We'd give her a good launch and then she'd paddle a bit and get very excited to find us. It was very cute and she really got that she was going from one to the other (something she really doesn't get the same way if she is walking - though maybe this will help). Here I think she is trying to tell Ben that she wants to play this back and forth game. She probably is launching off of him thinking she'll find me.
She was very independent in the water this weekend and because the water was warm we could be in the pool for long stretches. We were in for over an hour and a half on Saturday afternoon (after having already done an hour in the morning). We'd usually start in one of the cooler pools, like this one - a shallow pool that she can actually stand in plus it has the cool waterfall, and then when she started to get chilly we'd move to the heated pool. She was often so tried by the time we got out that she'd be jumping up and down in the water with her eyes closed (probably some combination of chlorine and exhaustion). Once or twice we even suspected she was dozing off mid-jump, then she'd shake it off and get back to work.
The only downside was that by the time we'd get her out of he pool, showered, changed and ready to have a snack she was usually pretty much out of patience and a bit screamy. Still she put up with it all very well.
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