We recently spent an afternoon....5 hours to be exact, at a local pond. There were 6 or 7 other families that joined us. One family brought several kayaks and two families brought rafts. The boys had a blast! I got lots of adult conversations in. We were all tired from all the sun and fun.

Here is JB...when we got there he had first ridden his bike and after that refused to take his helmet off.
When B first climbed into this kayak, I 100% expected him to get about 30 yards out, get frustrated that he could not control the kayak and freak out. Much to my amazement, he spent probably close to an hour paddling around the pond. Thursday we headed back to the pool. We were there for over 3 hours (lots of sun this week). The boys did amazing. Jbird now is very comfortable in the water with just a life jacket and he will kick/swim around the whole pool. B is comfortably swimming the width of the pool. JB killed it on the slide. He went down it no less than 25 times back to back - all the while with a life jacket on. Towards the very end, I would catch him and then quickly put him under water on the count of three. He handled it very well. Then I started letting him go down the slide and would not grab him until he came back up from underwater. I would simply grab him, turn him around and tell him to swim to the side. He would kick towards the side and then wait for me to help him out of the water. He also loved kicking off the side of the pool and swimming 5 yards, then he would flip onto his back and kick back to the wall and start all over again. We are on our way to mission accomplished...having three swimmers in the family! I think the boys are excited for JR to join us some day so they can show him what they have been doing.