All About Bryan and Dylan

Bryan had his first swim when he was 6 months old much against his PD’s advice. His PD discouraged me because the swimming pool is a breeding ground for bacteria.

But I really do not want Bryan to lose his natural swim instinct, so I just turned the deaf ear.

Back then, I will hold his arms and guide him around the pool. At first he will just kick his legs about and as he got more comfortable in the water, he will be splashing water with his hands.

I introduced him to floats after he turned 1 year old. At first he did not like the floats around his arms. But eventually he preferred the floats as he had more freedom with the floats compared to me holding him always.

Now, he is very comfortable in water. Yesterday when I took him swimming, he tried to float on his back, and he had so much fun doing that, we just had to capture it on video.
All we had at that time was my hubb hp, so pls pardon the poor quality. You bet we’ll bring a proper video camera the next time to capture his antics. Once I do that, I’ll load it on this blog

Yesterday is I think the first time that Bryan did not cry when we took him out of the water. Usually he will scream at the top of his lungs. Maybe it is because I let him swim for 30 minutes or more yesterday, which is much longer than usual. Or maybe it is because; we tempted him with kai-kai (shopping) and mum-mum (food). Anyway, it was a very enjoyable evening for us.

Because he was such a good boy, we rewarded him with tomato soup & grilled fish for dinner (which is what I had for dinner too). That is after he had his official dinner of cheese omelet at home. After dinner, we took him to CTY aquarium & pet shop for window shopping. It is a real fun place for him because it is a 3 storey of fishes, and other pets (birds, puppies, rabbits, hamsters, snakes, iguanas, etc.). Sorry, no photos allowed in the shop.