Last year I more than once expressed my frustration about getting Charlie time to swim in the pool at our YMCA. For reasons that you can read about here, Charlie has not been able to swim in the “big pool” at the hours when we can go (late afternoon/early evening). Our YMCA does have a quite elaborate “family pool” with two waterslides, a wading pool, and 3-4 foot pool, but it’s not the same as swimming laps. Somedays Charlie goes up the stairs and down the slides 20 times; other days (like yesterday) he puts his hands over his ears …read more