Tonight and last night, we went to the Indigo Hill swimming pool next to the house. Elliot drove his white electric Mercedes car that Mark Schaier night got him for his 3rd birthday last year.
I think it might be the last time; they close on Sunday for the season. I don’t have Elliot this weekend, and it is looking more and more like I should sell the house.
I hope never to forget the memories we made at that pool, including the ones with Max in the summer and fall of 2020. We went there almost every day for months back then, because mama needed a quiet house to study. The four of us were still living together in those days.
Although we spent a lot of time in the Cordillera pool in the summer of 2018 and 2019, Elliot learned to swim at WaterWorks Swimming lessons during 2021-2022, while spending time in the Indigo Hill pool, too. It’s where he first stopped wearing “floaties”, even though I have to hold him if he leaves the steps or the small area where he can now, finally, stand.
It’s where, in early July of 2021, he had an incident that got me to immediately sign him up for swimming lessons.
Here we are going to and from the pool. On the way back, his new friend Zachary joined him in the car ride. Elliot then proceeded to show Zach a bunch of toys in the garage.
