Tuesday, June 23, 2009

waterbabies......

so we took our first waterbabies class today at the ymca.......casey loved it.......there were way more people in the class than i thought there would be - about 30 sets of parent/baby i'd guess.......casey was completely in awe of everything happening around her - all the kids, all the noise, the pool itself.......we got to the class about 15 min early and she just sat on my lap the whole time taking it all in.......a couple other moms and i were commenting how bizarre it was that the kids were so anti-squirmy.......speaking of other moms - met another mom whose son is 14 months and she's due in october with her #2.......they live in hanover though so not exactly right next door to have playdates or anything, but still nice to meet and talk to someone in a similar sitaution as us.......aside from a couple things the class instructor showed us that i thought were a little advanced (having the baby sit on the wall of the pool, roll onto their belly, and slide into the pool; and similarly, climbing out of the pool using elbows, knees, and feet method) casey seemed to be right there with them on everything else.......she splashed, kicked, floated on her back and on her belly.......didn't seem to mind any of it.........and it was great to finally feel comfortable holding her in the water........until now every time casey's been in the water (pool or ocean) steve holds her.......which is what i've wanted because i haven't been comfortable enough doing it........definitely by the end of the class i was much more confident about holding her than when we started.........it was a little tricky figuring out how to get her and me out of our wet clothes and into dry ones in the locker room with 50 or so other people in there and water all over the floor........guess we'll get used to that.......oh it did lead me to do my first vertical/standing diaper change today!......anyway, it was a good class all around, can't wait for the coming weeks!........

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