Swimming

In honor of our 7th wedding anniversary next week (wow), KB and I stayed without the kids at a swank hotel one night while Sharon was in town.  The next morning with the help of Zhou Mei, Sharon brought the kids up to the hotel for a swim before checkout.  It is by far the nicest pool I have swam in during our stay in this country, but it was also probably the coldest.  KB does not seem to mind the cold, but gosh I am a wiener.  I can never get past it.

DB was a bit suspicious of the cold water when I first dipped in his little toes, but once KB jumped in and splashed DB, as far as DB was concerned he was not getting in the water, ever. This first picture is DB just after KB splashed him.  Poor scared baby.

Tired of me coddling him, KB took DB from me and apparently DB did not think the water was any better once he was in it.  He takes after mommy.

However, this girl loved swimming so much that she still wanted to stay in even after she began shivering and her lips began to turn blue.  She takes after daddy.

Even after a while DB was still not happy with the cold and terrified to let go of his duck floatie.  We seriously had to pry his tiny ice-cold hands from the handles when we tried to get him out of it.

 This is how we spent a lot of time at the pool, KB taking care of DB and me trying to help AB blow bubbles and also trying (failing) in my attempts to teach her to hold her breath under water. 

 I guess when you only get to swim 2-3 times a year, it is a lot to expect of the kids to do the things they had no fear of doing last year.  Pity.

See this picture?  It is standard in our family that KB will ruin half of all of our family pictures by closing his eyes.  Too bad we only took one.

 In the end we got out of the pool because AB seriously needed to warm up and DB never got over his fear of the icy cold water (can't blame him).  Poor baby.