Ethan’s 1st Pool Experience

I guess most people probably take their child to the pool before they are 16 months old, but we just weren’t aware of places that had baby pools and a decent price.  Some friends told us about a place that has 8 or 9 different pools including 2 baby pools where one is for babies and one is for toddlers.  And, the price is a little over $4 for an adult and free for children under 3.  We went with our friends one afternoon.  I’ve never seen so many little ones in diapers at a pool… and out of diapers.  Many toddlers and young children often swim naked over here, though I saw more kids running around the grass that way than actually in the pool.  There must have been a rule that the kids had to wear bottoms because they all had them on while in the pool.Ethan loved it, but he just stayed in the water near Gary at the beginning.  He didn’t stand up and walk around or anything.  Then I realized that he’s trained not to stand in the tub, so to him it was like he was in a big tub.He loved splashing around in the pool and finally got to where he would stand up and walk around some.He and Evan didn’t really play together in the pool.  Ethan loved splashing his hands in the water a lot, and Evan doesn’t like splashing at all.  This is the closest picture that I could get of the 2 of them together.Ethan enjoyed the slide, but would climb up it and then want to go down head first.  It wasn’t steep or wet enough for him to actually make it all the way into the water.Toddlers were allowed in the bigger pool if they were in some sort of float type thing, so we borrowed this one from the Beattys.  Ethan enjoyed being in the big pool.  We took him out of the float and dunked him under at one point.  After he got over the shock, he pointed to the float that he wanted to be in it again.  Guess we’ll have to work on going under water another time.