If you come to the pool, expect to get splashed!

Tonight I took S1 and S2 over to the community pool where we have season passes. We got a late start after dinner so we ended up with only twenty minutes to swim before the pool closed. The boys had a blast playing in the shallow beach area for the first ten minutes, then S1 decided to venture over to the other side of the rope into the deeper section. Normally this isn't a problem since he has his life jacket on, but today I was in such a rush to make sure they got more than five minutes in the pool we left it at home. S1 swims well with the life jacket on but without it can't paddle strong enough to stay afloat. So, the water is up to his shoulders and he is jumping up and down. But then he slipped and went under. I was sitting close by the edge and jumped in to grab him. However, he popped up all by himself! In the past when that has happened he has gotten all disoriented and can't get up on his feet, but today he did it! Actually, he did it several times - and I freaked out every time. S2 was paddling all around us and having fun practicing all that he learned this summer in swim lessons.

Luckily S1 eventually decided to head back to the beach area. He loves to splash there. Since I don't let him go crazy splashing in the tub, he takes advantage to do so at the pool. He will jump to splash, kick his legs in the air to splash or bend over, scoop and throw water in the air. Well, normally this isn't a problem but he had been sitting in the shallows and pushed himself backwards into the shallowest corner of the beachfront. Unbeknownest to S1 (and he probably wouldn't have cared if he'd known) was a grandma lady busy knitting, feet in the water watching the grandkids. Since S1 had gotten into prime splashing position that is what he began to do, throwing water up and over his head onto the lady. I was watching him from the deeper section where I was helping S2 with his swimming. I did immediately start telling him to stop and made my way over there but at first you could see how irritated the lady was and then she got up and moved away, grabbing her knitting bag. By the time I got there she was just grabbing her bag and from the look on her face she finally realized that the splashing was not intentional and that S1 was not all with it. This is actually a frequent occurence at the pool - S1 splashing people who are on the sidelines or just sitting in the shallow water trying to cool off just a little. But as my title says, if you come to the pool, expect to get splashed! Or maybe I should say, if we come to the pool, expect to get splashed.