Swimming
Today Zoë's school had a "staff development day", so Zoë was home. I had promised her a few days ago that we'd go to the pool for a swim today, so last night she put out clothes for the morning: Jeans, her favourite pink top, and her swimsuit (I put out socks and clean underwear). This morning when I told her to get dressed so she could walk with us to Miranda's school, Zoë got dressed with her swimsuit on under her clothes, and she even put her clean knickers into the swim bag!
We took Miranda to school, then we went out later and had lunch and did a bit of shopping, and then, yes, we went for a swim, and we had quite a long one. She is amazing in the water! She's absolutely fearless! She's not reckless, but she just has no fear of the water at all. If she goes under the water she just bobs back up and she's fine (not that I let her go under the water too much). She swam with me all the way down to the deep end of the olympic size pool, and we had some exercise on the bar on the side of the pool on the way back, and then we went for a longer swim in the smaller "rock pool" they have (much warmer, natural contours, really pleasant to swim in, I think). She scooted around in the water with her pool noodle and just had a great time.
It's really good to see her doing stuff like this, and talking about it, even!
That's my girl!
I was listening to The Beatles, to Revolver, with headphones, while watching a colourful interactive visual program that reacts to the music (it can be quite trippy, which works really well with an album like Revolver).
In particular, I was listening to George Harrison's "Love You To", which has a lot of sitar in it and is... well... trippy. I put it on repeat because I was enjoying watching the way the visualsations reacted with it and, well, George is my favourite Beatle and I really like the sitar.
Zoë came over and wanted to listen, so I put the headphones on her. She watched the screen intently and when the song finished she said, "Wow. That's a good sound!"
She ended up sitting in my chair for about half an hour with the song on a repeating loop (she likes repeating loops, so it's okay), watching the visualisations...
I'm going to have to get a collection of some of my better sitar music (yes, I have a pretty good collection, some of it The Beatles and some of it others like Anoushka or Ravi Shankar) and let her sit down and listen to it all.
She's right. It is a good sound.
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