Saturday toby had his first swimming lesson. The use of both the terms swimming and lesson are somewhat exaggerated, although I imagine they couldn’t charge $8 a class for something called supervised splashing. Since the lesson Jon and I have been trying to determine why we were so unnerved by all the singing in the class. Yes, the class description also failed to mention that instead of swimming you would be standing in a pool doing the hokey pokey, or more accurately, moving limbs of a buoyant 9 moths old to do the hokey pokey. And maybe that’s it, since toby and the rest of the kids don’t sing, it’s really just a bunch of parents floating around singing about the wheels on the bus while the kids drink chlorinated water. But toby sure likes it, songs and all. Which is good, since we have another 9 weeks to go.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
toby of the day, 4.12.2008
Saturday toby had his first swimming lesson. The use of both the terms swimming and lesson are somewhat exaggerated, although I imagine they couldn’t charge $8 a class for something called supervised splashing. Since the lesson Jon and I have been trying to determine why we were so unnerved by all the singing in the class. Yes, the class description also failed to mention that instead of swimming you would be standing in a pool doing the hokey pokey, or more accurately, moving limbs of a buoyant 9 moths old to do the hokey pokey. And maybe that’s it, since toby and the rest of the kids don’t sing, it’s really just a bunch of parents floating around singing about the wheels on the bus while the kids drink chlorinated water. But toby sure likes it, songs and all. Which is good, since we have another 9 weeks to go.
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