Look! They’re swimming underwater!! After this picture, they took their suits off and were swimming with NO floatation device at all. Under water. By themselves. I was so proud! What happened was D brought her 3 girls over to swim yesterday at lunch and her two older twins can swim. Like, really swim. So of course Lexi the copycat started putting her face under water. Last night when we got in, Emma was trying to do the same. Emma kept asking how you swim with your head under water. So I said, you start swimming (which of course I was showing them what to do) and then you hold your breath and put her head under water and you keep swimming. So lo and behold, they did it! Emma can also jump off the side of the pool and swim her way up without any floatation device either. But um, yeah, Lexi was like a rock. I had to pull her off the bottom of the pool right after she jumped. She wasn’t coming back up on her own. She was completely fine, no coughing or anything but she still needs some sort of floatie when she jumps. And I don’t know if you can see it in the picture, but Lexi opens her eyes underwater and looks to see if she can find the steps. When she first started swimming, I said do you open your eyes? She didn’t say anything, but immediately went out a few feet from the steps, swam back with her little eyes open, comes up and says “I did it!”