Anyone who knew me when AL were small, can probably recall the number of ear infections they both had. I lost count once they reached the double digits. As a result, both boys had tubes put in their ears and Emet and I thought it was a miracle....no more ear infections!!!!
The down side of tubes is that kids can't get their ears wet (washing hair was a JOY!)...so no swimming. AL refused to wear ear plugs and honestly we were not willing to risk having any issues with the tubes.
L's tubes fell out last summer (well, actually one got impacted and grew into the side of his ear and he had to have it surgically removed, but that's just semantics), so he has been swimming for a while now. They have swimming once a week at school and he loves it.
A has been going to the preschool class during the hour and half swimming lesson because he was not allowed to swim.
THIS IS ALL IN THE PAST NOW! Aidan lost his last tube while we were in Austria. We took him to the Dr. on Saturday to make sure all was sealed up inside his ear. The Dr. gave Aidan the green light to go swimming. If I could have bottled A's excitement, I probably could have motivated a 1,000 people to climb Mt. Everest.
A came home and wrote a letter to the preschool teacher since he won't be going to her class anymore.
It says, "Thanks for having me"- The large person with the hat is A and the much smaller one is a preschool student! A is throwing a snowball at the little kid.
L being the always protective older brother (by 25 minutes) is very worried about A's success in swimming. He said he would be the one to teach him how to swim (please recall that L only started swimming very recently). So L wrote a letter to the swimming teacher.
It says, "Aidan will go to swimming today. Aidan never learned how to swim, but he didn't just sit there. He went in the pool."
Wonder how the swimming teacher will respond...she doesn't speak a word of English!
PS-blog posts about our three week excursion will be posted in the next day or so. Thanks for being so patient (Michelle).
4 comments:
Yea!! I'm sure its been hard watching from the side lines. Good job Aidan!! Give him a big kiss from Grandma... one to Lucas too.
Great news! Tell Aidan that PaPa can help. I was an assistant swimming instructor in Navy bootcamp.
Yeah A!
Awesome! I know that E&E are looking forward to swimming with A&L again next summer!
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