Our mission this week at the lake has been to get the kids to jump off the dock. They are great swimmers (they swam across the lake for the first time last summer...they were 2) and have been jumping into water since before they could walk. When they were not yet a year and a half old, people at the YMCA would gather around to watch Abby fly off the edge of the pool, bob up saying, "Again" and climb back up for another jump. Some of Ben's first steps were on the floaty mat at swimming lessons into the water. These kids have been jumping into water for most of their lives but for whatever reason this summer they decided that they were not jumping off the dock. Hence our mission. Here's how it went:
We tried stranding them on the dock with no other option...
that didn't work so well.
We tried jumping in with them. They liked it, but still refused to jump on their own.
There were a lot of tears
but eventually, they were ready....
to jump!
Even off the big dock!
***I do know that all the jumping pictures are of Ben and the only picture of Abby is one of her screaming. You should know that Abby jumps too, she just likes to jump to me (aren't I lucky?) so I haven't been able to get any pictures.
that didn't work so well.
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