Pool Party!!

For the majority of the summer I thought to myself, I really should get Matty to a pool a couple times this summer just to get him used to it and keep him from freaking out about swimming later in life. Well, I know it is hard to believe, but it is now September and I never brought him to a pool. Every time I thought about it I would be driving by one of our local pools and see 6,000 children in the pool and think that shoving shrapnel in my eye would be more fun than venturing to the crowded pool.
Yesterday a friend that Steve plays softball with had a pool party and my motherly guilt melted away as I introduced Matty to a swimming pool.

At first, he was very interested in it, but was quite apprehensive and cautious.


He slowly got more and more confident and even started letting go of his dad and our friend, also named Matt.

Towards the end of the night, Matty even jumped off the diving board in to Matt's arms. (the picture turned out way too dark)

He really seemed to enjoy being in the pool, when it was time to get out of the pool he was very, very upset- which I would call a success. Next time we will just have to see if he will let us put the second Spiderman arm floatie on him.