This second video is from swimming about a week ago. Usually Ryan doesn't come with us, but since it was Saturday we could all go together. Willa had been super comfortable in the water and totally capable of swimming if she would just do it. I'm too hard of a task master, though, so she would never do anything for me. Ryan has the magic daddy touch. He can make things a game and get the girls to do things without being confrontational. (For example, two nights ago June wasn't eating her dinner and was whining for something else. I gave her the cold hard facts but Ryan just lifted her on his lap and quietly made a little game out of it and soon she was quietly eating with him without a fuss.) So, after swimming several times a week all summer with me, Ryan finally got Willa to grab the water-feel heritage she was born with and just swim.
The daddy magic is real. I wish I could muster up some calm and fun parenting more often!
ReplyDeleteI'm just catching up on your past few months and having fun reading all about swimming adventures and visits to and from family. Grandmas really are the best, aren't they. I hope I can be a good grown-up mom/mother in law and grandma, with energy for doing those awful, dreaded tasks and playing with the children. I don't do so well at either of those things now, but I'm hoping my priorities will shift appropriately as I get older! :)