It's hot...

Seriously, it's only October and it was almost 30 degrees today and I feel like I've been melting all day... (it was still 29 degrees at 6:30pm!) I'm really feeling the lack of aircon in the house! Summer in this house without aircon must be like living in a furnace!

This morning, I took Beth to her first swimming lesson. She looooooved it. A little too much... We got there 10 minutes early, and they were the longest 10 minutes of Beth's life... She just wanted to jump in the pool right away, but there were other kids in the pool having their swimming lessons, so we had to wait... and Beth does not like waiting! She whinged, she cried and she got really upset when I wouldn't let her in the water... seriously, the minute out lesson was about to start, I had to let her put her feet in the water, she just couldn't wait!

The lesson was great... lots of singing of nursery rhymes, lots of "kick and paddle", fetching of toys... Beth took to it all like a duck to water. The only thing she didn't like was lying on her back (which is weird, 'cos she does it in the bathtub all the time!) and we had to do this "monkeying" along motion which involved moving along the side of the pool while holding onto the edge... Beth really didn't get the hang of that... mostly because she kept pushing herself off the wall because she wanted to be free in the water! A measure of how much she loves the water, is that she let the swimming instructor hold her to demonstrate some manouevres and also let the instructor catch her when I got her to "swim" to the instructor. She is such a water baby! After our lesson (and half an hour goes *way* too quick for Beth's liking), Beth wasn't ready to leave, so we went and paddled in the toddler pool for another half an hour and even then I had a lot of trouble convincing Beth to get out (even though her lips had turned blue from being cold!), so I just had to pick her up and take her to the changerooms while she whined!

After that, we went home and Beth ate lunch (she was starving!) and she had a huge 2 hour nap... swimming obviously wears her out... it wore me out too! So I'm off to bed to recover!