Two months in, Sam is a fish. An awkward fish perhaps, but most definitely a cute fish. Having finally mastered the art of holding his breath, he is all business. He starts by taking a deep, deep, deep, deep breath and then…
…he throws himself head first into the water, kicks loud and furious like a stampede of wild horses and then…
…his little fanny sticks out of the water like a mushroom cap.
When he can't hold his breath any longer, he bolts up wide-eyed. His hair pasted to his forehead, covering his eyes, he gulps another deep, deep, deep, deep breath and he's back under.
Sam is beyond excited, I don't even know where he is on the spectrum of happiness, he is severely happy. He finally learned, by the way, after a little girl, a friend, showed him how it's done. Peer pressure doing good things.
Yesterday while John and I waded at a safe distance from Sam, for the splashing was intense — John said "Whale?" Twins Dad will sometimes play a "whale" by shooting underwater to grab toes.
Sam heard, stopped and said, "John, say 'READY, SET, GO!"
And John replied, "READY, SET, GO!!" which sent Sam flying over the water until he bobbed up with a grin. He said again, "John, say READY, SET, GO!" and of course John replied, "JOHN SAY READY SET GO!!!!"
This went on and on for oh, about twenty minutes. Laughter, dancing eyes, love. I think it's the first time they have ever engaged in a back-and-forth game without any adult prompting.
Cutest. Thing. Ever.
8 comments:
Oh wow! That is HUGE!! I love that "severely happy," can't think of a better way to describe that:)
LOVE it! So cool!
Awesome! Love the pictures this conjurs in my head, too!
This made me smile.
Say good night Gracie.
Good night Gracie.
;-)
You've got a blog spammer again, KAL. Interesting how they hide the URL in other code. It links back to Robert11523.
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Thanks, FB! I don't know why I don't get an email alert when they spam. How do I block him, do you know?
You could block the individual, but my guess is that the accounts are generated, send out a boatload of spam, and get shut down. You could go to moderating comments, but that's a bit of a pain. I'll keep an eye out for postings of an, umm, prurient nature. It's an odd thing to post as who's going to click on a link in a blog post?
Incidentally, Primo and Secondo are down in Costa Rica with Mama and Abuelita. Keen says Secondo has taken to the pool like a small orca.
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