Swimming in France

As many of you know Max is in school here in France. He has a lot of fun at school, they do a lot of fun activities with the kids. One of the things he gets to do with his class this year is, swimming. They started last Tuesday and will be going every Tuesday afternoon. Max was so excited about this, he loves, loves, loves swimming. The kids get to ride the bus with the elementary school kids to the swimming pool, which is in a town not far from us. In order to go swimming he had to get a French swimming outfit. After seeing the style for swimming suits here in France, I knew that if we sent Max with his long "boardshorts" style swim trunks he would really stand out and look very strange to the other kids. The boys here wear speedo style, or tight short shorts style swimming suits, so we bought Max a "French" swimming suit. Also in public swimming pools they require everyone to wear a swimming cap, so we bought him one of those as well, he calls it his "swimming hat." When we got his swimming uniform on I wanted to take a picture but he was so excited that I could barely get him to hold still in order to take it.

The teacher said he had a lot of fun swimming and that he exhausted so much energy that he fell asleep on the short 5 minute bus ride back to the school.
I also wanted to include this picture of Maddie. She was fascinated by the red swimming cap. She was constantly trying to put it on her head. After several tries she finally succeeded.

Maddie is the only toddler I know who always wants to put things on instead of take them off. She will bring us her shoes constantly wanting them on. She loves to put on hats and sunglasses. Just recently she started trying to put her coat on or carrying it all around with her and trying to get us to put it on her. What a crazy girl!