Our Boys Can Swim!

Yes, it's official, both Tom and Ollie can now swim.

In fact Tom has been swimming for a couple of weeks now, and naturally, he's becoming a stronger swimmer every day.

Today was a revelation for Ollie though. Ever since Tom stopped wearing his armbands Ollie has been complaining about his. Well, he would because as far as he is concerned, he can do whatever Tom can!

Bianca went to the pool with them today, and after some persistent whining, she decided to get into the learner pool with Ollie without the armbands. This pool is well out of Ollie and Toms depth, but not as deep as the big one.

Ollie doesn't understand the distinction between jumping in with and without the armbands and it seems he's got a point! He was leaping into the water and swimming!!! This is a two year old we are talking about. What a boy!

While they were in the learner pool Ollie climbed out to run around the edge to get away from Bi who was quite rightly making sure she was within reach of him at all times. Anyway, it seems that while she was telling him in no uncertain terms not to jump in out of her reach, he decided to do a typically Ollie thing. He ran in the other direction and launched himself headlong into the adults pool without a second thought.

Apparently people were scrambling all over the place to get to him, but when they did, there he was doggy paddling around the big pool with the other "men".

I wish I had been there. I don't have any photos but tomorrow I plan to go with them and capture it all.

I already have loads of footage of the boys (.mpg files) swimming around but I can't post them here. I may make up some discs and send them around.

Anyway Pride, Pride, beaming Pride. I hope you all get the impression!!

I'm going to finish up with a little action sequence.

Going....