Esan Ray Learns to Swim!!!

We’ve been going swimming a lot lately for two reasons: first, this is the hottest time of year in Thailand, sometimes over 100 degrees before noon; and second this is the summer break for the schools.  So, to beat the heat and take advantage of summer vacation we’ve been going swimming.  Corban has been swimming like a fish for a long time and at the beginning of the summer break Esan was using floaties.  He was loving the water and having lots of fun swimming with his brothers and jumping in to Tonya and I.  And then all of a sudden, one day, he just decided to take off his floaties and started putting his head under and trying to swim.  That was about two weeks ago.  I kept trying to get him to swim to me in the big pool but he just wanted to stay in the kiddie pool where he could touch.  And then, this past weekend at in Chiang Mai, he just started swimming in the deep pool.  I think part of it was because he didn’t have a choice, there was no kiddie pool.  It was so fun getting to see him swim and seeing him be so excited and proud of himself.  So, here is a short video of him swimming and having fun.