Blue Band

In the course of one week Amelia has gone from being able to doggy paddle a few feet to being able to swim the width of the pool without stopping -- since she has literally been in the pool every single day for the past 9 days and counting, this shouldn't surprise me. After she begged me to let her take her "blue band" test at the JCC, I finally agreed. For the blue band you have to be able to swim the width of the diving well; this allows you to use the water slide. Amelia passed the test, went down the slide once and announced she didn't like it. I asked her why and she answered, "I don't like the way you fall into the water, I don't like going very fast, and I'm afraid of heights!" All perfectly good reasons to not like the water slide. 

Here she is showing off her blue band before she took it off and went back in the baby pool :-)