Another First!

Last week a friend of mine from Alaska, Miss Jen Faris, came to visit for a couple of days. For one of our outings with the kids, we took them to the Monon Center.

The Monon Center is a "waterpark" about 20 minutes from here. There are several pools with a lazy river, some BIG waterslides, climbing apparatus and diving boards.

We knew going in that Grant was going to be too small for the slides (have to be 48" and he's 44"). He still insisted on being measured and was incredibly disappointed when he was several inches short of the mark. As we were walking away, I noticed a kiddo about Beckett's age getting ready to jump off the diving board. The lifeguard blew his whistle, so I figured that was the end of it. But no, he just had to take off his life jacket. So I asked the lifeguard and no, there was no height requirement for the diving board.

I looked at a very wide eyed Grant and asked if he wanted to try. He didn't even give it a second thought and went to stand in line. I was really nervous for him. At the Y pool, he can touch the bottom of the pool at the end of the slide. This pool was 12 feet deep...no way to touch. As you will see, no problem. I asked him later if he was nervous the first time he went off. He responded with, "no. I was worried because I didn't know what jump I was going to do." :-)

Update on Beckett - he's really hit the 3s with a vengeance. I go from wanting to cuddle him to wanting to drop him off at the corner. He goes from giving me hugs and telling me he loves me to yelling NO and throwing books at me. Lovely!

Seeing Grant jump off the diving board and go off the slides has really pushed Beckett to swim more. We are all hoping that by next summer he will be shooting into the water right along side Grant.

Grant has another camp this week. This time he learning all about animals and it's held in a nature center instead of a park. He's going with his good friend Isaac. Should be a good time. :-)