It was swimming day for the boys. To make it extra fun there was a family coming by to look at the house while were out so everything had to be in order before we left. We managed to make it out the door without locking the children in a closet which I consider a moral victory.
On the way there we stopped at a traffic light and Charles stared fixedly out at a van next to us. I leaned back and asked him “is that a cool car?”. I swear Charles turned to look at me with big eyes and said “yeah”. He looked at for a bit longer with that questioning look he has, but Dad had stopped being entertaining so Charles turned back to look at the car.
Charles had a good time swimming. I was tagged for water duty with him today so Mom dropped us off in front while she went to park. Charles was cried a bit as Mom drove off but he got over it. One of the swimming activities was life jackets which was a bit of a challenge to get on Charles (Mom admits that she’s never been successful at it). The life jackets were so that the kids could jump into the water and float on their own. Charles didn’t really do either — he was insistent on having physical contact with Dad at all times. I also tried to get Charles to swim on his back which he does not like at all. I took advantage of that because when he started getting really upset he would kick his feet just like he was swimming!
After swimming Charles and I went to dry off and get dressed. I thought it would work better if I got dressed first so that I didn’t soak Charles clothes as I was dressing him (most of the time while he’s being dressed he’s sitting on my lap). Charles didn’t like this and started crying and searching the lockers for the one with the clothes in it. I was reconsidering my plan when Charles located the right locker and made it clear that clothes could wait – he’d left his car in there! So all was well.