We have barely been keeping our heads above water -- life is just busy! The contract on our house is pending... still hard for me to actually believe! The buyer has an eight day period to opt out, so we have until Wednesday for her to pull the plug. She had the house inspected this afternoon, which is a good sign that we are full steam ahead.
The only catch is she wants to close and have us out by July 15th. I was supposed to drive down to the lovely Texas coast for a week at the beach with my fam from July 7-July 14, and then we are leaving for a two week trip to Costa Rica/Connecticut/New York from July 16-July 30. Then come home, have my sister's wedding on August 4 and then have G's birthday party on August 11. Still with me?
If everything moves forward, I may be sending sweet G to the beach with my parents and staying home to pack and move out. Move out to we don't know where yet! We are going to look at fifteen more homes tomorrow because R leaves for a week long work trip on Monday. Whew! So yes, we are staying busy and I'm trying not to get stressed out about any of this. July/August will definitely be a whirlwind adventure :).
We started week one of swim lessons and G hates them. Seriously hates them with a capital H. He gets really excited when we get there and is eager to get in the water. It's a parent/child class, so obviously, I get in with him. There are three other babies who are significantly younger ... probably because the cut-off is two years, so he is on the cusp of being able to move up.
We start the class, everything is fine, and then it happens. Loud screams. He does not want to participate! He was in swim lessons once a week before, so this is very new behavior. There hasn't been any attempts to even put him under water yet - everything so far has been working on kicks, scoops, and sitting on the side of the pool. I am trying to find out what triggers these epic meltdowns. I am that mom at the pool that all the other moms either give sympathetic looks to or wonder what is up with my crazy demon child? Haha. I hate being that mom!
The only things I can guess are:
- These lessons are outside and there is a lot of stimuli around us to distract him. He would much rather be doing his own "thang" than participate in structured activity. The other lessons were held in an indoor pool, and it was only for lessons so there wasn't much else going on.
- He acts up more with me. ??? I don't know about this one, but next Monday we are going to try having him swim with just the instructor and me out of the pool to see how he does.
- He's just at that age where he isn't ready. We played in the shallow baby pool area after the second disastrous lesson and he was very tentative to even leave the edge. Maybe he is scared?
- Maybe he is bored? The other place we took lessons constantly rotated the kids around to different stations, etc, so we were never doing the same thing for longer than a few minutes.
Anyway, those are my best insights. Feel free to weigh in if you have any thoughts! Needless to say, I am ready to figure out where this behavior stems from and either stop the lessons to refrain from scarring him or go with plan (b), whatever that is. This was supposed to be something fun for the two of us to do together to keep him comfortable in water. He loves water, so I naturally assumed he would love swim lessons since he did fine with them before. Wrong. So wrong. I eagerly signed him up for these in August as well, so I may be asking for a refund. Sad mama face here!
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| He was happiest post-swim lesson when he was eating his snack, and even here his face screams, "Seriously, mom?!?" |
Haha, never a dull moment around here! Okay, enough word vomit from me for one night. Keeping my fingers crossed that we find a house that we both like and can agree on tomorrow!
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