Took the girls to the pool yesterday at the club. It was their first time in a pool, so before we even took that first dip, had a few considerations...
Firstly, public pools are not ideal, what with the amount and variety of people. Furthermore public pools are usually of the "for serious swimming" variety with no wading pool to speak of, which is what they really need for now anyway, not an Olympic-sized monstrosity.
Secondly, do we need bathing suits for them??? Decided not to for the first few times as it's neither easy nor cheap to get a suitably sized suit for them. So for now, it's a pair of cotton shorts for them to go a dipping...
My membership duly processed (after a bit of prodding the club...) they finally took their first steps into the pool yesterday.
The obligatory shower before entering bothered them a bit, with both proclaiming that it was cold. It wasn't really cold as it was around 10am, but still for them it was colder than the usual tub of lukewarm water.
After they stepped into the wading pool, we progressively brought them from knee deep to chest deep. They were quite scared at first and didn't dare to move, and Jun Yen quietly saying "Keng keng" meaning "afraid" in Cantonese, which she began using some time back, and which I have no idea where she picked it up from.
But after a minute or so, both were quite happy, and after a while we even brought them over to the jacuzzi pool. We put the girls to stand in front of the bubble-jets to let them experience it, and at one point when Jun Yen's buttock was facing a jet, she said to us, "ta piku" meaning "beat backside" in Mandarin. It was hilarious!
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