Parenting at it’s finest.

So, my kiddo’s have become quite the daredevils.  Jumping off the diving board at the pool and everything.  But yesterday my sweet little 4-year-old (who only started jumping off the diving board on Sunday) and my somewhat danger adverse 6-year-old did flips off the diving board.  FLIPS.

Seriously, they are going to give me a heart attack.  But Zoë is only 4.  And she has only jumped off the diving board about a dozen times.  She was so excited to be able to do it–as it is what the big kids get to do.  She had to pass a swimming test–she’s an awesome swimmer.  Then she prepared for her first jump.  She excitedly got in line and when it was her turn…

…she flung herself off with fierceness (No hesitation–she ran and jumped). She swam over the the side on nearly a single breath and smiled.  And did it again and again and again.

I asked Noah that day if he was going to try a flip.  He said no–he wasn’t ready.  He is just now starting to get the hang of diving. Which I understand as I was never EVER brave enough to attempt a flip off the diving board.

So, they jumped and cannonballed and twisted in the air for over an hour on Sunday so happy with the rush of being a kid fling themselves out into the water.

Imagine my surprise when yesterday I get an email from Bill telling that the kids “did flips off the diving board.”  Imagine my heartache that I wasn’t there.  I didn’t get to see their first flips.  This hurt a little.  But here are my kids doing something I was never brave enough to do.   EVER.

So, all the talk at our house last night started like this “Mommy can’t do a flip.”  “Mommy is scared to do a flip.”  “We can all do flips….Well not Mommy.”  Followed by “Mommy you have to try to do a flip.”

“No I don’t.”  I said which was met with much making fun of me.

Yes, I encouraged Noah to try to do a flip.  I certainly didn’t imagine that Zoë would be doing one on her second day of diving board adventures.  Although, I don’t know why is surprises me–as she knows no fear.  But there is no way that I am trying to do a flip.  NO WAY.

It’s scary.  The whole idea of doing a flip is scary.  It freaks me out a little the my kids do them–I think it’s awesome–but I am not trying.

Skydiving anyone?