Since the Christmas rush is over and it is the dead of winter and the mercury is falling to all of 55 degrees outside, we decided it was time for Patrick to get busy in some kind of extracurricular sport again. We settled on swimming, a good choice if you ask me. Patrick taught himself to swim this summer, driven by the sheer desire to be able to do it. I didn't want him to forget over the school year, and I also wanted him to learn basic strokes, so we signed up at the YMCA. It turned out that no one else signed up for the Monday/Wednesday class, but instead of canceling it, they just offered a private one-on-one lesson for the price we already paid, so that was good. Anyway, long story short: he's enjoying it.
