When the happy swimming bug bites

With no swimming lesson today Grace and I headed to the gym for a swim. We were a bit later than usual which meant there were people in the pool. Grace said, "No swimming," just being a bit of a pain that she did not have the entire pool for herself. So I told her that we would swim for 10 minutes and if she wanted to get out then, we could go.

Once we hit the water it was full steam ahead with no looking back. The happy swimming bug bit and Grace was jumping in over and over, doing chooka trains along the side (while loudly going, "Chooka train! Chooka train!"), pushing backwards off the side, singing Humpty Dumpty and toppling in, and just having massive loads of fun. At one point another girl (maybe 5 or so) got into the water and her jumping in just intensified Grace's energy, with Grace copying her and following her lead.

There is no more, "No go underwater." These days it is "Go underwater!" She has started jumping with her legs in the air, in more of a sitting position than a diving position (and getting some decent distance too). In one of her jumps she went rocketing down to the bottom of the pool. I pulled up a girl with a massive smile on her face saying, "Go underwater! More go underwater!"

I said to her that we needed to go soon. "No go home, stay in water eba," "You want to stay in the water forever?" "Stay in water eba."

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