About Me

Washington, DC, United States
Heather Capell Bramble is mother of two kaleidoscoping kids, Jonah and Vera. She has a magical kaleidoscope, often in her back pocket, and it usually helps her turn her normally chaotic life into something beautiful. Her goal is to have as much fun and try to be as happy as they can while on the uncharted journey of motherhood. This means doing lots of arts and crafts, going on crazy adventures, and celebrating all kinds of holidays - and yes, trying to laugh along the way!

Friday, February 8, 2013

Pool-a-pooloza!

Fresh back from our Florida pool party, we decided to take a quick dip in the pool yesterday at the Wilson Aquatics Center - right down the street from us.  It has been on my list for a while but just never got around to it... my guess we will be spending much much time there!!!!

It is free for district residents.  It is nearby.  IT IS AWESOME! 

I had both Jonah & Vera with me and it was super super fun.

I have been swimming for 40 minutes 2x a week now since we got back from Jamaica at the swanky gym in Bethesda and loving it.  We swam in Jamaica all day long for 10 days.  Most recently, we swam in Florida with our cousins.  This Saturday, Jonah and Mama are going back to the DCJCC pool (Jonah completed a number of swimming classes there when he was 6 mos old) for private swim lessons!  We love to swim!  Swimming is cool!

Anyway back to the Wilson pool.  There is a kiddie pool and yesterday, it had two basketball nets set up and a bunch of balls.  There are these splashy fountains things and these bucket spiller things that came on after we had been there about 30 minutes.  The pool is "zero entry" so it was perfect for my little crew and doesn't get much deeper than 2.5 feet I think.  That being said it is connected to a deeper pool next to it to practice some real swimming with the kids.  We spent a solid hour in the pool having the best time.  Vera even met a buddy from yoga class there!  At one point, a little swimming class started and they brought out the noodles - and the instructor let us have 2 and Jonah & Vera were super psyched about that.

We got home and they were starving - we ate lunch... then Vera was asleep in a instant!

Jonah was tired but would not sleep - he rested...

Perfect Thursday before the imminent snow storm "Nemo" we are supposed to have... ha!  That Nemo... I heard he likes to swim too!

PS:I got around to taing three photos... because you know, we were at the pool and I had both kids... there was sort of a lot going on...





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