Summer of Swimming

We are swimming like crazy this summer. Not today though. We had other errands to run and take care of this afternoon. We went to one of the Auburn pools yesterday to swim. E has been wearing swim "wings" to swim - last year and now this year. Prior to today, they have allowed her to use the wings and the Auburn city pools, but not yesterday - nor going forward. We tried a life jacket, no good - flipped her over on her back. Then we put on a suit that has the floating 'stuff' inside of the suit - that didn't work, made her roll over too. So, I had to hold her most of the time. Until she decided that wasn't good enough, she wanted to swim. So, off she went. Blowing in the water and swimming. After an hour and a half of being there, she was pushing away from me and swimming. Face down in the water, kicking her feet and using her "ice cream scoops" [hands with fingers together and not separated] to swim. I won't let her get far from me, for quite some time but she is doing a good job so far. Maybe by the end of this summer she will be swimming really well. Hope everyone is handling the heat as well as you can. I hear for those of us in AL we should have some relief later this week with cooler temperatures in the lower 90's.