Hot

The boys started swimming lessons this week at the Purdue pool. Monday night Benjamin did really well, but John Stephen wanted nothing to do with it. I don't think it was the swimming, but the leaving Mommy. We tried it again tonight with much better success. I started talking about going to swimming lessons early in the day. Then at dinner we really got the boys hyped up about it. We also did a little bribing! We decided that if they went swimming we could stop for a warm, gooey cookie on the way home. So all the way to the pool, John Stephen kept saying "Hot. Keekee... Hot... Hot."

Once again, John Stephen wasn't so sure about being left with the instructor and really made her earn her pay tonight. But finally he settled down, and from way up in the bleachers, we could see him kicking his feet and paddling with his arms.

After the lesson, we went to retrieve the boys from her. As we approached, we cheered for John Stephen, "You did it, John Stephen!"

His immediate response was, "Hot!"