A Week of Family!

Vi and Roux came to stay for a week. During this week I agreed to teach two sessions of the Parent Child swimming class for the local swimming pool. (Yes, I am a Red Cross certified Water Safety Instructor.) Heidi brought Deegan over for lessons with the Level 1 class and I talked Mike into bringing Roux to one of the sessions I was teaching. Mike is a devoted Grandpa--he is not a fan of swimming pools, but he brought Roux anyway.

It is fun teaching the class, but in the back of my mind I am thinking, "This is ridiculous to have a class for parents to play in the pool with their child." Some of them come because they have older children in lessons, some because it forces them to set aside time to play at the pool, but others really don't know how to play in the water with their kids.

Roux is a little water-boy. He and Vi swim nearly everyday, of course, you have to to survive the Arizona summers, so Roux is fearless around water and thinks he can swim all by himself.

Roux and Poppa

I took Roux from Poppa to show the parents some different things to do to play with their kids. Roux was really ticked off that he had to leave the fun he and Poppa were having doing their own thing.

It was funny watching Roux with this rope. He would arrange it, evaluate what he had done, re-arrange it, evaluate, over and over and over. Later Mike let him play with a roping rope and they practiced catching things in the rope. I didn't get pictures, but it was fun to watch.