1, 2, 3, Jump…

I don’t think it’s the 95 degree heat that’s so bad.  It’s the 100% humidity that makes it feel like “sticky, jungle, can’t breathe, heat index of 115, wish all you had to do was sit in a pool” weather that gets to us.  So, guess what we do?  We sit in the pool. All. Day. Long.

You would never know it by Mary Clare’s excessive flotation devices, but she is really coming along with her swimming.  She isn’t afraid of the water in the least, and will often take off her arm swimmies and practice with me.  She will jump off of the side and (with a bit of underwater pushing from Mommy) will swim to the shallow end steps a few feet away!  She certainly isn’t swimming alone by any stretch, but I think she is making great progress and just might have it by the end of the summer!  McCanless learned to swim alone in the summer of 2007 when she was 3 1/2, when Mary Clare was born and we were at MUSC.  McCanless was staying in Florida with Sissy and Uncle Kurt.  They have a pool and Uncle Kurt worked with McCanless until she had it.  I was so proud of her.  Now, she is quite the swimmer.  Even today, while at the pool, someone asked me if she was on a swim team!  (Not yet.)  So, Uncle Kurt, are you ready for swim camp with Mary Clare?

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