Thursday, July 26, 2007

Cruel Parents

Tomorrow we will finish our two-week swimming lessons course here at our local pool, which our kids believe is filled with water sent via pipeline from the Arctic. We like the end of July for lessons because it's usually plenty warm by then, even for the 10:00 lessons. These past two weeks have been unusually chilly and cloudy, though, leading our kids to believe that we simply enjoy torturing them by sending them to lessons each day. I do feel sort of sorry for them because I know how it feels, but they've been pretty strong troopers with it all. Here's a couple shots of them looking their most pathetic this morning as they finished class. Keep in mind that Erin's class is only half as long as Joe and Ellie's, so she has a little more to smile about.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

We won't tell them that their "play time" with Baboo in the Shawnee pool was pre-school. You do remember that she taught swimming? And they were doing quite well when we left -- hope the additional chattering two weeks have them totally comfortable in the water.
Welcome back.
Love,
AB

Jewels said...

Hey Bob, Cruel mother, indeed.
It's just one of those things mean moms do like making you eat your spinach.

Bob said...

Yep - We built some character this week!