Friday, October 17, 2003
Benny today, feeling chatty while swimming in the pool:
"Look Mom, I'm flying! Like a dragon! Or a bird! Or a crow! Or, do you remember, when Benny was flying in an airplane? Do you remember and the guys were on the airplane? Do you remember? (coming over to hug me) Oh my sweet love. It's good how you are. It's good how you swim and that's great."
*BEAM*
He did great at the pool today, and tread water for over three minutes, and floated on his back. Ms. Deanah is very pleased with his progress. I'm just floored by the fact that he now PREFERS to swim in the 5 feet part, and while he does come to me to rest up between swims and floats, he also will sometimes swim over and hold onto the side for a few seconds, and then launch himself off and swim around some more. He loves to swim in circles and he also likes treading water and sort of spinning around while he looks up at the skylights. The more he can do, the more he enjoys the water, if that's even possible. The best thing about it as Ms. Deanah pointed out is that if he accidentally fell in deep water, he would now be able to keep his nose up until the lifeguard could get to him.
"Look Mom, I'm flying! Like a dragon! Or a bird! Or a crow! Or, do you remember, when Benny was flying in an airplane? Do you remember and the guys were on the airplane? Do you remember? (coming over to hug me) Oh my sweet love. It's good how you are. It's good how you swim and that's great."
*BEAM*
He did great at the pool today, and tread water for over three minutes, and floated on his back. Ms. Deanah is very pleased with his progress. I'm just floored by the fact that he now PREFERS to swim in the 5 feet part, and while he does come to me to rest up between swims and floats, he also will sometimes swim over and hold onto the side for a few seconds, and then launch himself off and swim around some more. He loves to swim in circles and he also likes treading water and sort of spinning around while he looks up at the skylights. The more he can do, the more he enjoys the water, if that's even possible. The best thing about it as Ms. Deanah pointed out is that if he accidentally fell in deep water, he would now be able to keep his nose up until the lifeguard could get to him.
