Hello Tired Troopers!
Has anyone ever gone to baby swim lessons before?? We enrolled for a month long Tuesday & Thursday class for the twins. This class is a parent/child class for any kids 6 months to 3 years old. Well, they require swimsuits and swim diapers (duh), so obviously they are aware that babies do their business whenever they need to…
This was our third swim class and 10 mins into a 30 min class we hear, a huge booming announcement, “Ok, everyone out of the pool, immediately!” We all looked around and I turned to my NICU Baby Buddy who looks shocked and embarrassed and then I looked at her 10 month old son who had a teeny tiny bit of spit up on his mouth… seriously?! A red level alert for this?! Doesn’t the copious amounts of chlorine they pump into the pool take care of something this small and insignificant??
Apparently NOT! Everyone was yelled at to get out of the pool. Then, our swim instructor went, “Ok, I’ll leave this up to you all, but it has to me unanimous. We have to skim, clean and disinfect the pool and then wait 30 mins before entering again. We can either wait and resume this lesson or we can reschedule this class for tomorrow.” So, we all decided to wait it out while every work attendant started the cleaning.
We took our kids and set up camp together sitting on towels in the grass. I was honestly happy cause now we just get to chill and catch up. My friend was mortified! I was glad that the pool takes biohazard spills so seriously, but geeze people you did not have to handle it so forcefully and annoyed-like. My friend just kept apologizing and I was like, girl, this class is for babies!!! 6 months and up, they know babies do this sort of thing all the time, I’m honestly surprised this hasn’t happened yet! I’m literally just waiting for one of my kids to poop! To which one of the life guards turned and said, seriously this happens at least once a week, it’s not a big deal and smiled. And we all laughed, which made her feel a little better.
Then my family and I started making fun of the SWAT Team level response and someone brought up Monster’s Inc. when the CDA (Child Detection Agency) makes an immediate response to the code call 23-19 that is triggered when a monster comes into contact with a human item or child. It was that level of response!!! Too freaking funny. So we all started calling it a 23-19 and my Mom (G’ma) snapped the picture above of all of us heading out of the pool and added her hilarious artistic flair for me to send to my NICU Baby Buddy.
P.S. I love that my Mom doesn’t know how to add text to pictures on her phone, but did that stop her?! Nope! She just perfectly wrote out all that verbiage. It would have taken me forever to be able to do that and it still wouldn’t have turned out that good!!!
P.P.S. My Hubby on the drive home goes, “Ok, did anyone see the 2 year old whip off all his clothes while we were waiting for the 23-19 clean up and bare a**ed took a leak all over the concrete pool deck?” I didn’t cause I was too busy laughing about the situation with my friend over in the grass, but I was able to tell her that that also happened when I got home which also made her feel better. Kids will be kids after all! I’m sure I would have been embarrassed too if it would have been my kid AND POOP, but try to remember this the next time your kid has an accident. They happen, no biggie!
Update:
A few classes later we actually did have a real 23-19! I didn’t see it, but apparently the swim instructor made a mistake with a kid underwater and the poor little guy took on water. He came up and spewed everywhere! When I clued in and looked over his mom had gotten him to the edge of the pool and the poor little guy spewed again all over the pool deck. Like so much that I don’t know how that much fit in that kid level spew! But all I saw was the stuff on the pool deck… as I was making my way to the pool stairs that’s when I saw all the uh, “other stuff” swirling all around in the pool! Oh man!!! And there was no way I was going to be able to avoid it, so I just walked through it… they have showers there! Plus the pool water on the other side of the oil spill was clear.
The poor mom was embarrassed and kept saying sorry. My sis and I went up to her to ask if he was ok and if they needed any help. She apologized again, so we said oh girl, it happens! The poor little guy just took on some water. I just hope he feels better now!
So again, people! It sooooooo happens! And it isn’t the kids fault! So, please try not to be too embarrassed! And please reach out to the adult with the kid, because they probably need reassurance 🙂 we’re all in this together!
