Swim Finn

Swimming, originally uploaded by Sacha Digi.

Sometimes parenting feels a bit like a grind. Then every once in a while it really is rainbows and flowers. Seriously.

Today was one of those days.

Around 3pm I got this wild and crazy idea. Let's go SWIMMING. This is crazy because it's kind of late in the day for our early bedtime boy, AND we'd never taken him swimming before. So we put away our trepidation, packed up and headed to the YMCA.

This was no tame pool experience. It was open swim, filled with yelling kids throwing balls and splashing. Finn just shivered, held onto us tightly and stared at everything. After a bit, he relaxed and started to play. He did so well!

We came home and I really thought he'd head into a late nap, but he didn't. We hung out in his room and he played. Finn was playing with his bead maze and whenever he'd move a bead M. and I would clap like crazy and he'd grin. Then M. and Finn would high five and he would crack up. We spend half our time thinking this kid is so independent that our praise falls in deaf ears, so it was nice to have that interaction.

He was in such a great mood and it was so amazing to be together as a family. It was just a fabulous day. Rainbows and flowers all the way.