Swimming

On Monday night my parents stopped by on their way home from Vegas. They enjoyed some yummy dinner with us and then we all went swimming. (Well they went swimming, it was too called for Claudia and I.) The water was FREEZING!!! My dad jumped right in and so Charles followed. He is still wearing a life jacket these days, and Madison is too! It is great, they can be totally independent in the pool without me worrying about them especially now that I have Claudia too. The pool started feeling a little too cold so they all got in the hot tub. John told Charles to take off his life jacket since the hot tub is shallow enough for Charles to touch. After some convincing he finally took off his jacket. He figured out that we were telling the truth and he enjoyed walking around the hot tub. John suggested he try swimming across the hot tub to grandma with his face in the water. He did and it was too hot. So he jumped out of the hot tub and ran to the pool (instinctively because that's what he does) and jumped right in. NO LIFE JACKET ON!!!! We all freaked out a bit and started running towards him. The distance between the pool and hot tub is about 10-15 feet. My mom was the first one to get there and before she even jumped in he was already at the top of the water paddling around as if nothing was wrong. Well she jumped to get him and the water splashed in his face and he freaked out because we all were freaking out. He didn't even notice that he did not have his life jacket on. I think it is time to start working with him so he can swim with NO life jacket. I know he can do it. He proved it to us (unintentionally of course.) He is just scared!