Owen is a lot like baby ita.

I personally don't care for water that isn't clear enough to see through.

I'm glad my kids aren't afraid of anything but DAMMIT, my kids are NOT afraid of anything.

Scary, Cashmere! I'm glad everyone is okay.

A college friend had a story about how her mother would always, always, always tell the story of how her brother saved her from drowning when they were about Owen's & Liv's ages. He was the kid who could do no wrong and she was always trouble. At some family gathering, when her mom started to tell that damn story again, she retreated to the kitchen, only to find her brother there. She muttered something about how he should get out there to bask in the hero worship, and he said something like, "what are you talking about? That story is all about how I nearly killed you by throwing you in the water. I hate that story." To him, it was all about how he was the bully and she was the innocent little sister.

Scary scary scary, Cashmere. I am so glad nothing bad happened.

Noah has had swim lessons since forever (eek! I know it's his second year but I couldn't figure out how they could have been last year because he was still on oxygen and we had just brought him home. Um. No. He's been home since July 2007. I lost a year), In fact, he's being moved up a group. I think the only thing they have done so far is make him overly confident and comfortable about water and more apt to wander in or to try to push us away.

Then again, I was and still am a water baby. I love the pool. Love the ocean less because the ocean here is cold and I am not a fan of sand in weird places. Lakes are meh but rivers are good.

I know it's not HPAA approved, but many of the staff at TK will talk to us about other kids in the facility. During the respiratory training, we were told that many of the older kids in the facility are there because they fell into a pool, didn't know how to swim and when rescued no one bothered to breathe for them with CPR. So fucking sad. (Even sadder, the newest girl in Grace's room is being weaned off methadone. She's an INFANT INFANT, like maybe 2 months, is on a vent and cries constantly. Poor poor noodle.)

That's really scary, Cash! Glad all was well.

A&E showed a marathon of the first CM episodes and they were all such cuties.

I watched the pilot (have others for later), and really appreciated how they are all themselves right from the start, but at the same time the characters have changed over the years. If that's not incredibly obvious to say...

Oh man, Cash. Too scary. Thank goodness it all came out okay.

I'm an ocean/salt water baby. I've never swum in a lake or river or pond. Although truthfully, I'm not a water baby from the swimming standpoint, but the atmospheric standpoint. I love the sound of waves and the smell of salt and sea breezes.

I'm pretty sure the reason I never really learned how to swim well is exactly that I grew up with the ocean. So I'm totally comfortable in the water, but almost always keep my feet on the ground.

I'm not picky about my water - salt always throws me off a bit because I learned to swim in Lake Huron, but I'll basically swim/kayak/row/sail in anything you put in front of me.

My parents made sure to put all three of us in classes at the Y.

Ocean swimming: I like to swim out past the waves and just bob about with my ears underwater (and then play the soundtrack to The Piano in my head). And half my ocean swimming was jumping off Gramps' boat on the south shore of Long Island.

Yearly vacations on the lake, with lots of dock jumping and snorkeling for golf balls and turtles. And the local watering hole was Short Falls, a bit of river where if you were cool enough, you could swim to the far side and use the rope swing. Snorkeling there, too.

Rivers are still my preference. Especially for floating down rapids on those giant tubes.

I have learned that I can run the 30 faster than an NFL back.

If NFL players were mothers whose kids were in danger behind the opposing line, there would be a lot more fatalities on the field.

Oy cashmere, that is scary. Mac has had swimming, but has now been away from pools for a year. He also has a tendency to freeze when scared now so I am afraid of what would he would do.