{"id":586,"date":"2008-07-16T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T13:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=586"},"modified":"2008-07-30T20:10:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T19:10:32","slug":"swimming-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"swimming lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tKaitlyn had her first swimming lesson today.   We got to the pool about a half an hour early.  I wasn&#8217;t sure how long it would take to buy the 10-visit passes.  Naturally, when I went to buy them, the woman asked me for papers proving we live in town.  My drivers license with the address ok?  Oh, no.  A phone bill would be good.  I don&#8217;t carry one around with me.  She finally just sold me the resident passes.   <\/p>\n<p>\tOnce we got into the pool, Kaitlyn zipped up her float suit and got right in the water.  It was a little chilly for me, so I watched.  The teacher was in the pool giving another lesson.  At one point he wanted the boy to put his arms at his side to swim&#8230; we&#8217;d have probably told him to be like a torpedo.  The teacher told him to make himself like \u0093une baguette.\u0094  Only in France.  I also learned that those foam noodles kids love are called \u0093frites.\u0094  (French fries)  I was hungry from all the food talk.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href='http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/kkswim-1.jpg' title='kkswim-1.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/kkswim-1.thumbnail.jpg' alt='kkswim-1.jpg' \/><\/a>When Kaitlyn&#8217;s lesson started she was so thrilled.  The teacher gave her special goggles.  I don&#8217;t know what makes them special, but she had to wear those instead of the pink ones she insisted we buy.  He had her spit water like a fountain.  I&#8217;m so happy she&#8217;s learned that.  He had her racing her little friend across the pool.  Kaitlyn won.  She likes to race.  She doesn&#8217;t like to lose.   He also had them get into the deep pool to swim.  That made me a little nervous, but I figured he knows what he&#8217;s doing. <a href='http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/kk-alain.jpg' title='kk-alain.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/kk-alain.thumbnail.jpg' alt='kk-alain.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tWhen the half-hour lesson was over, Kaitlyn acted like she&#8217;s ready for the Olympics.   I made her put her float suit back on to get in without me.  That didn&#8217;t last very long before she was standing on the steps, unzipping and climbing out of it.  \u0093I don&#8217;t need it anymore\u0094 is what she told me.  I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;ll ever put it on again.  I suppose that was the idea of swimming lessons.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/kk-gabby-jump1.jpg' title='kk-gabby-jump1.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/kk-gabby-jump1.thumbnail.jpg' alt='kk-gabby-jump1.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/kk-jump.jpg' title='kk-jump.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/kk-jump.thumbnail.jpg' alt='kk-jump.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/kk-gabby-jump2.jpg' title='kk-gabby-jump2.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/kk-gabby-jump2.thumbnail.jpg' alt='kk-gabby-jump2.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaitlyn had her first swimming lesson today. We got to the pool about a half an hour early. I wasn&#8217;t sure how long it would take to buy the 10-visit passes. Naturally, when I went to buy them, the woman asked me for papers proving we live in town. My drivers license with the address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}