Tot Swim!

Today was our first trip to Tot Swim with Phoebe.  I was a little nervous about taking the baby to the pool by myself, so Jeremy played hooky from class so he could come with us for our first day.  I met Jeremy at home after work, we went to daycare to pick up Phoebe and then went straight to the gym.  At first Phoebe wasn't too sure about what was going on:

She doesn't look too happy in this picture - but she sure is cute in her froggy robe (thank you Regina!!)  The pool is great!  There is a huge kiddie pool with a ton of shallow water.  The water is also super warm - it has to be at least 80 degrees in there - the babies LOVE it!

To the right of the baby pool (just out of the frame of this picture) there is a huge lap pool and a great twisty water slide.  We hope Phoebe loves swimming so that when she gets older we have a reason to play on the cool water slide.

Back to Tot Swim.  Jeremy got in the water with Phoebe and she was totally amazed.  She couldn't stop looking around at everything going on.  In fact, she was so fascinated by the goings-on it was pretty hard to get a decent picture:

Once she had checked everything out and got down to business - Pheobe LOVED swimming.  We bobbed her up and down in the water, gave her a ride on a kick board, and she kicked up a storm.

It was a regular baby party in the pool!  The student who told me about Tot Swim was there with his wife and daughter.  Their daughter is only 11 months, but she is great in the water!  Even more exciting for Phoebe - after about 20 minutes in the water her buddy Quinn showed up!  Quinn is one of our friends from Parent's Place and we just had a play date yesterday, so it was fun for Phoebe to see her pal again.  We had put away the camera by this point, but Quinn's mom took a bunch of photos, so when they email them to us, we will post a few of the girls together in the pool - it was pretty adorable!

As much as Phoebe liked playing in the pool, she got a little tired after about 45 minutes.  She put her head on my shoulder to take a rest and discovered that she loves the taste of chlorine, so she spent the next 5 minutes trying to suck chlorine residue off my face.  Quinn's mom also got some pictures of that - but I don't know if those will make it to the blog.  After we got out of the pool, we rinsed off the chlorine, dried off and put Phoebe in some really warm fuzzy jammies.  We fed Phoebe and jumped in the car.  Apparently Tot Swim wore her out:

Since the baby was sleeping soundly and Jeremy and I were both really hungry, we decided to be bold and risk dinner out.  About halfway through dinner, Phoebe woke up and let us know that she was not happy to wake up somewhere other than her cozy pack-n-play.  Despite having eaten at daycare right before we picked her up AND draining a bottle right after Tot Swim, Phoebe also made it quite clear that she was still pretty hungry.  The whole drive home she tried to eat her stuffed elephant causing extreme upset (what with stuffed elephants not being very filling and all).  Luckily we got home in a hurry, gave Phoebe another bottle and got her tucked into bed. 

All three of us had a great time at Tot Swim!  I can't wait to go back next week.