Swimming

At the beginning of January Azure started swimming lessons at our community aquatic center. It's mostly geared to help toddlers become comfortable in the water. She has learned to jump in into my arms while putting her head under, blow bubbles, and kick her legs and paddle with her arms (while I hold her tummy afloat). We are working on floating on her back. She doesn't like the water going in her ears.

She absolutely loves it. So much in fact that she can't stop talking about it. I'm pretty sure she dreams of it every night because when I get her in the mornings she does the sign for swimming and says, "Snimming". Then she blows bubbles with her lips, and says, "wawa", while pretending to pour water over her head (something else she learned). Often times she repeats this over and over again. It is SO cute. If she happens to see her bathing suit in her drawer or hanging up in the laundry room she will also start telling me this "story" again. I am loving this stage she's in. She repeats almost all of the words I tell her. One of my favorites is "wabie" which is butterfly, and flower. She has a hard time distinguishing between the two. How she came up with wabie for these words is beyond me, but I think it's darling. Maybe she'll be a swimmer.

No pics of swimming, but chasing of birds.

Wednesday night she went #1 in the potty! She's making some progress. She loves to be chased around the house naked after her bath hiding in various spots answering, "Azure" to our calls.