Our apartment complex had an end of summer pool party, complete with DJ and burritoes. We thorooughly enjoyed swimming with the kids. They really are quite confident in the water now.
At the party, two competitions were held; one was a hula hoop contest and the other was limbo. Jimmy and Amelia eagerly participated in both. Neither kid has used a hula hoop. Jimmy watched the other kids begin to spin the hula hoops around their middles and decided to give it a go. He held on tight to the hula hoop and ran in circles as fast as he could to create the illusion of a spinning hula hoop. Amelia decided that the best way to make the hula hoop go round was to hold on and twist her waist from side to side so that both she and the hula hoop did quarter turns in either direction. While they didn't win (and 9 year old girl one, and paraded around the pool spinning the hoop the rest of the evening, even eatting and drinking while making it go) I gave them points for creativity. Jimmy has done the limbo before and stayed in for the entire song. Amelia cheated and went under ducking forwards everytime. (Although there were times she didn't need to duck to clear the bar)
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I can just picture them doing their very own hula hoop'n : )
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