hayden jumps and swims...but mostly jumps

would keep him up and even less trust that after not swimming in a big pool for a year or two, hayden was not too fond of aunt ruth and uncle jeff's pool in florida when we went in november of 2006. he refused to even go on the stairs of the "big pool" and strictly stayed in the little hot tub area. he had absolutely no trust that the floatiesdave would. any time dave got out of the pool and started walking anywhere close to hayden, hayden would jump up and run away, screaming.
last year we took him to a lake once and he actually did surprisingly well for the short amount of time that we were actually in it.
just a few days ago, jessica let us come over to a house she was house sitting at so the boys could play on the trampoline and swim. as soon as we got there hayden was up on the ladder trying to climb down into the pool. we told him he wouldn't be able to touch the bottom and we helped him put the floaties on. he couldn't wait to get in.
at first he floated around with the floaties on his arms and a ring around him. he then lost the ring and moved on to a raft. a bit later, he was swimming around with only the floaties on his arm. he still had no trust in dave but did a fairly good job of listening when dave and justin tried teaching him how to kick his legs and move his arms.
soon hayden was jumping off of the ladder making the jumps further and further out. at one point he jumped over dave. and then he even jumped INTO the floating ring and actually made it his very first try. i thought i had gotten that on video, but i'm not seeing it now so i guess not.
hayden has been talking about the pool and swimming ever since. we'll have to find some bigger pools and lakes to take him to this summer. and he has been requesting to go on water slides ever since he found out they existed from the back of a cereal box.