3rd Jan 2014: Water wheels, hammers and sharks
Becky, Aged 37
3rd Jan 2014: A fresh pool
Dylan, Aged 6
This is Day 3 of a 30 Day Post-a-Healthy-Picture challenge
Day 3: A wonderful world of water
January 3, 2014
Sliding and jumping
May 21, 2013
Mum: Do you know what happens to frogspawn?
Son: Yes. The balls will pop out of the jelly and then they’ll turn into tadpoles.
Mum: What happens to the tadpoles?
Son: They grow legs, then their tail shrinks, then they grow little things – like frogs do – and they jump around and then they turn green and then they get bigger.
Mum: And they hop around on lily pads?
Son: Yeah, and they sometimes use the lily pads as slides or those things where you jump… highboards – in swimming pools – they use them as that, you know. They bounce on them and go: “Wheeee! Splat!”
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Flipping around
March 18, 2013
Back flips – Mar 2013
D: Those shapes are the reflection on the top of the water and that’s the man at the top of the ladders. That’s the sun shining through the window, and that’s us swimming – there.
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Water world
January 9, 2013
D: I feel sick because I drank too much in the swimming pool. I don’t like one thing about swimming now, when I think about the water.
Me: You’re not meant to drink the swimming pool, you’re meant to keep your mouth shut when you’re under the water!
D: I did!
Me: So how did you drink the water if you had your mouth shut – did you take a straw in?
D: No… That would be silly!
Me: Perhaps you should have a snorkel next time?
D: Yes – that’s it! That’s a GREAT idea!
Me: Well… Snorkels and masks are for learning to dive, and you can’t learn to dive until you can swim a few lengths of the pool, first.
D: But diving‘s not allowed in the swimming pool.
Me: Diving INTO the water’s not allowed, but I’m talking about diving UNDER the water – sub aqua diving. I used to do that – it was great! There’s a whole different world under the sea – like in Finding Nemo, with all kinds of fishes swimming past.
D: Did you want to see a shark?
Me: Only if it was quite far away.
D: I bet you didn’t want to see a HUMPBACK WHALE? They’re the biggest creature in this world!
Me: Only if they were quite far away too.
D: Are they bigger than the sea?
Me: No – otherwise how would they fit IN the sea?!
D: Oh yes.
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Navigating the waters of life
January 3, 2013
D: Jordon didn’t even have to help me and I swam underneath the flag. You have to poke your head down and you’re not even allowed to do anything under water. All you have to do is this… [puffs cheeks out and moves arms round in circles]
Pirates, sea-legs and swimming
November 16, 2012
Pirates, boats and beaches – Nov 2012
D: It’s pirates – they’re the beaches [circles at the top], with trees on them and an ‘X marks the spot’. That’s the boat [centre], and I did someone swimming there [below the boat] – that’s their hair going up.
That one’s [left] got poorly legs because they’re all bendy and he needs to go to the doctor – a pirate doctor.
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Pool person
October 17, 2012
Swimming pool design – Oct 2012
D: It’s a swimming pool in the shape of a person – you can swim in the head; or the body; or the feet.
Race for independence
August 16, 2012
D: Are you playing racing? [From his lilo in the hotel swimming pool]
Me: Yes – with myself.
D: And my invisible friends.
Me: Oh, I didn’t realise. Who’s winning?
D: My invisible friends.
Taking turns
August 10, 2012
D: You know we said yesterday that we can do something that I like doing, then something that you like, then something that I like and then something that you like?
Me: Yes?
D: Well we went in the pool all yesterday, so today we can do something YOU like! What do you want to do? Go swimming? I REALLY want to go swimming – can we go swimming?
Swimming the channel next :)
July 16, 2012
Moving up a lane next term 🙂
