Saturday, September 12, 2015

Pool Games

One thing that has been told to me over and over again is to enjoy and savor every phase as the kids grow up. Kids grow in and out of phases so quickly, it seems that if you blink, you might miss a phase in your child's life. So, I try very hard to take that advice to heart, and soak up each phase as it presents itself.

We are currently in a phase where Da Boys love swimming. I know, shocking huh? Kids that love swimming pools. How novel. But the particular phase is that they love swimming with Daddy. They love when Daddy plays with them in the pool. Sometimes, I'm tired, or cold, or whatever, but I try to remind myself; this phase isn't going to last forever. Accordingly, I try to take advantage of as many of these opportunities as I can.

One of these pool phases as already kinda passed. It was called Casey-Bomb, or Sydney-Bomb. This was a game stolen from Uncle Ed and cousins Chantal and Elena. When they were little, Uncle Ed did Wugga-Bombs and Goo-Bombs, where he would pick them up in the pool and throw them, thus causing them to splash down in the water like a bomb. Well, I stole the idea, and would announce "Casey-Bomb" or "Sydney-Bomb" before picking them up and throwing them into the water. Casey always enjoyed this 'activity' more than Sydney; although Sydney is beginning to derive pleasure from this game too!

Hulkie
This one comes from the Incredible Hulk. I am Hulkie; and I chase Da Boys around the pool and roar and pick them up and throw them. In turn, they hit Hulkie in the head, and try to push his head underwater.

Sharkie
This one is sort of dying off too. It was more popular back when Da Boys didn't swim so well. Each one would ride on my back as I swam partially submerged as they rode above the water surface. Hence, they were riding the shark.

Cargo
This one consists of each of Da Boys hanging on to my arms, while I tow them around the pool like cargo. Of course, the ride gets rough, and I eventually dump the cargo into the water.

Tick-Tock
I think this is actually a children's activity that was learned in organized Daddy and Me swimming classes. Of course, me and Da Boys have our own version. It goes a little something like this. "Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock, I'm s little cuckoo clock, how I'm striking X o'clock." I pick a number for X and dunk them X amount of times underwater until the clock runs out. Sometimes, on the last repetition, I will throw them in the water instead of dunk them.

These are all the games that come to mind now, I'll add to the list when we phase into new ones. Maybe I can even dig up video examples of each game.

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