Pool session

Brought Dylan to Safra pool with Mel to help with filming and did 4 activities:
1. Dylan jump in from poolside into pool towards me (holding my hands)
2. Dylan float using swimming noodles and move towards me as I move backwards
3. Mommy and Dylan jump into pool together
4. Mommy and Dylan climb up and slide down a slide side-by-side together.

It was a good session! Although he did make various attempts to run off, twice successfully during activity 1, he did seem to enjoy and reach out for my hands and squealed in delight even before he got into the water.

With swimming noodles, he still finds them unfamiliar (being much more used to armbands), and often gravitated towards the poolside, rather than towards me, so need quite a lot of guiding.

The third activity started unintentionally. He was trying to stick one leg into the water while we were both at the poolside, and when I said not yet, he brought his legs back, and really watched out for my knees to bend (as a cue that I'm about to jump), then jump in with me together. We repeated that a couple of times and I noted he looked out for the signal often and tried to coordinate the action together with me!

The last activity was more difficult to execute, as the slide's slippery - while he waited, I needed to physically hold him back lightly to to guide his hands forward to indicate I'm going down.

Overall, a session that got me encouraged as I can see progress! We had fun too!