Follow Me, Lightning MacQueen

This post is about what my children were just doing out at the pool before birthday cake and ice cream after Easter dinner.

The Mater Update & The Lightning MacQueen Chronicles:
I was in the upper, small pool (otherwise known as the hot tub) with my children when they started a game together.  My son, who is the older and more imaginative one, decided his sister was Lightning MacQueen and he was Mater.  He told her they needed to go rescue people and she said, "okay."

Rescuing people (or was it cars?), involved getting out of the top pool, getting into the main pool and swimming from one set of steps to the other.  Once that was done, they would come back to the hot tub and jump back in. 

My daughter was happy to play with her brother and had no trouble following his lead, even when he insisted that she get in the pool first, (because Lightning Macqueen goes first, he said).  But she started disliking it after the third round because he kept grabbing her inner tube, even when she told him not to and that she didn't like it.

The game changed to the children trying to "tow" me from one side of the hot tub to the other.  We were having a good time but my son (being the over-zealous kind of guy that he is) kept grabbing his sister's tube.   She was telling him he was hurting her (he wasn't, he was annoying her) but after another warning I took away his inner tube.

Now mind you, neither of them know how to swim, so this was partially a punishment and partially because they need to understand their limitations in the pool without a flotation device.  My son was okay without it as soon as he realized he had a little more mobility without having to hold on to the ring.

He was having fun jumping to me, going under water, blowing bubbles and kicking to the other side (with assistance).  He was having so much fun that his sister decided to abandon her inner tube too and work on her swimming and jumping.

We spent the rest of the time going under water and moving from one side of the hot tub to the other.  My son realized by the end that he could stand up on the bottom and still keep his head above water if he was on his tip toes. 

They both were having such a good time they didn't want to get out for cake and ice cream.