It has been a while since Grace and I have been for a swim together. Sickness and various other things have kept us away, but today we finally got it together, and when we got there she totally surprised me by jumping onto her pool noodle and kicking her way first across the pool, and then back to the step. I have never seen her move so well in the water! I am just glad she is finally kicking a bit – maybe it is the practice she has been getting in the bath. For the last week or so, at the end of her bath, she has been diving (literally) into the bath and kicking like a crazy person (with all the water spray that one would expect). Back and forth she goes from one side to the other – dive, splash, kick. The practice seems to have paid off.