bummer

So I brought Jack back to the Janet Pommeroy center for swimming lessons, but we had to miss the first week because our friend Lisa desperately needed a place for her son Lorem to come and play (see pictures above of warming up after hot afternoon/wading pool fun). So we went to make up on Thursday and for the first time since Jack started swimming his swim diaper leaked poop into the pool! Jack was pretty traumatized. We got out first and when everyone else had to get out, Jack put two and two together and just cried and cried.

Last week he had a cold so we skipped. In the meantime we're trying to get Jack started using pull-ups instead of diapers. Well those looked like swim diapers to him and he wasn't having any of that!!

So today we went to swimming and Jack did not want to go. I told him we would just go watch the other kids and if he didn't want to get in he didn't have to. I also had to borrow a disposable swim diaper from the pool. Jack did not want to put that on either. So we went out to the pool side with Jack in the nude and he watched for a while as the other kids got in the pool. After a while he said that yes, he would like to get in and I told him we had to put on the swim diaper for him to go in the pool. And he did!

Unfortunately, today a different kid pooped in the pool and we all had to get out right after song time! But Jack was willing to wear a pull-up after swim class and even tried his best to pull one up when we were getting him ready for bed tonight.

He really likes to talk about all this pooping in the pool. He says, "Mama, I want to talk about the pool." and I say, "okay, Jack, what happened in the pool" and he rattles off how he went poop in the pool and everyone had to get out and he was sad, etc. Now he ends the story with "there was poop in the pool, but Jack didn't do it, another kid did it!"