Water Baby

Here's my water baby enjoying his special day at West Edmonton Mall World Water Park, when we went for the weekend in the middle of February!

He had so much fun running, jumping, splashing and swimming in the wave pool! And the best part is that it wore him out! I discovered, that all it takes is 5 hrs and $70/day and you too can have a well behaved, calm and tired child! Not to mention hungry! He gobbled up an entire order of child size ribs at Tony Romas's, fries, a drink, his dessert and even had a taste of my ribs! Poor little guy was starving after a day in thr pool!

He also tried several waterslides! He enjoyed the child size ones for the independence and confidence it gave him. However, he enjoyed riding down the adult ones for the thrill of it! He's such an adrenaline junkie! His favorite ones were those that are pitch black inside, so you can't see where you are going! He looked terrified when he came off them, but he immediately asked to "go again, again, again!"

Harrison has loved the water since he was a baby, and is turning into quite a good little swimmer! In fact last week at his swimming class, one of the other mom's, whose daughter was terrified of the water, couldn't believe how comfortable Harrison is in the pool, and said to me, "your son is a fish!" Before that lesson, Harrison had told me that he was going to be teaching the other kids how to swim until the instructor got there! My Mom and I had a good laugh over that! The kid can swim, but NOT that well! Then, thanks to the little terrified girl sitting on the edge of the pool, the instructor made them all put on life jackets, which I knew was a huge mistake, since all that did was give my (not terrified and now overly confident) little man free reign of the pool! The instructor couldn't keep him with the rest of the class! All Harrison wanted to do was jump off the side with no help, then swim away from all the kids that couldn't keep up! I could see the instructor getting frustrated, and all you could hear was him repeating, "No Harrison, don't jump. No Harrison, stay here. No Harrison, come back." Needless to say, he hasn't brought out the life jackets since, eventhough that same little girl won't get off the edge of the pool or stop bawling her eyes out!!!

Life as the mother of a fish!!!

Do you like swimming? Or are you like me and prefer to relax in the hotub! Do you like waterslides? What/where is your favorite place to swim...pool, lakes or the ocean?