Lena

No matter how many times I explain how people wee in swimming pools, Lena still keeps drinking the water like its a strawberry milkshake. We are on Lena’s 7th swimming lesson, with her ever so patient swim teacher, Amy.

Lena is unfocused making, very realistic dolphin noises, when, it happens. My amazing five (and a half – don’t forget the half!) year old daughter swims for the first time without any arm bands or floats. And suddenly, forgetting that I’m in a public pool with other humans, I start jumping up and down, yelling at Lena like a crazy woman. In the privacy of your own home you have free reign to go nuts at their fantastic achievements. (The first time she read a whole sentence from her first book I picked her up and threw her about in our kitchen while she laughed and screamed with me.) But in a public swimming pool you have to try and contain the yelling and the screaming. Maybe I’ll do better next time.

Sorry for the commotion folks, go back to your sauna.