Anyway, since the two of us had the run of the place that weekend, I decided to get Lucas over his fear of water. It used to be that he loved anything to do with water. Get him in the bathtub and he would splash up a storm and he giggled if you sprayed him with the shower head. Over time, though, he somehow became terrified of the thing and really anything else that would splash him. We brought him to a little water park/playground about a month ago and he just freaked when water got sprayed on him. So with that in mind, I began my quest to cure him of his aquaphobia.
Step 1. Set up an oscillating sprinkler in the backyard.
Step 2. Run through it a couple of times myself to let him realize it wasn't going to kill him.
Step 3. Repeat Step 2 but hold him in my arms to help him build confidence.
Step 4. Put him on the ground and encourage him to run to me in the dry area when the water would start spraying on him.
Step 5. Step back and let him have fun.
Thankfully, it didn't take long to get to Step 5 as you'll see in the photos below.
As we've seen in the Olympics, swimmers have their pre-race warmups. Unlike Michael Phelps, Lucas's warmup involves standing in the living room, chewing on a plastic maraca. Hey, whatever works for ya, I guess.
After we got outside, Lucas cautiously took stock of the situation. "Hmm, this doesn't look too bad."
Lucas taunts the sprinkler in a tauntingly taunting baby fashion.
Things didn't go well at first. Lucas fled to the corner of the yard.
Never one to be deterred, Lucas returned to battle and slayed the savage sprinkler.
Afterwards, Lucas posed in his cape, as all good warriors do after battle.
We wrap up this post with a couple of videos filling in some of the blanks from the above pictures.
4 comments:
Too funny! Lucas seems to have gotten over his fear of water falling down on him.
We really enjoy looking at your blog and keeping up with the day-to-day happenings with Lucas. In fact, Carson requests to see the blog on a pretty regular basis and says "It's Lucas Mommy" whenever he sees his picture. Maybe our little guys can meet someday.
For a horrible second, I thought we'd be treated to video footage of "step 2". Yikes, Justin in his "Borat man-kini".
I love his little ghetto pants!
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