What an imagination!

Today after working out at the gym I took Jake swimming. He's been totally into the "butterfly" stroke after watching the Olympics this summer. He tries to do it, and it's very cute what he does, though I can't even begin to describe it. Today, he was doing his butterfly. Then he said, "Mommy, this is how a shark swims." I didn't really see what he was doing that was any different so I told him he could put his hand on his head like a shark fin and swim with the other. He didn't like that idea so much so then decided that a shark swims "fast" and it looked about the same as his regular swimming. Later, he asked "Mommy, do you want to see how a jellyfish swims...?" "show me," I said. So, he thought, first he said that yo have to twist your legs together and that's how. He quickly realized that was not very easy, even with floaties. So, he let his legs and arms dangle in the water with his back curved around like the head of a jellyfish. Cute. When it was about time to leave he was at the opposite side of the pool and asked if he could swim to the steps. As I watched him swim I saw him doing the strangest thing with his hands. He had each hand tight with all of the fingers touching. Then he was touching the fingertips of one hand to the other and then pulling them apart again but with the hand still tight. I finally asked him what he was doing and he replied, "swimming like a crab." WOW! He has such an imagination on him, I would have never thought to do that. I know, crabs don't technically "swim" but still. When he was almost at the stairs he said, "look Mommy I can be a different kind of crab too," and he now was swimming and pulling his fingers and thumbs apart and then putting them back together like you would do if you were mocking someone who was talking a lot. He is just so darn cute and I just wanted to remember this story. It doesn't do it much justice without the visual so really this post is more for me than anyone else but I hope you were able to picture it as much as possible and enjoyed it in some way. Wouldn't it be great if we all maintained the imagination of a child!!