Mum... do you think this is too tight?

Nearly every Saturday for the past... oh I don't know... 18 months or so... Spencer has had swimming lessons.

He is now in B3 which is a more advanced class than he was used to and is focused more on actually learning to swim than building the children's confidence in the water. He no longer sings nursery rhymes but instead has to float on his back, used a kickboard and even "glide" in the water... all very serious moves for a 2 year old!

Over the past few weeks his teacher, Helen, has been suggesting we buy Spencer a swimming cap to keep the water out of his ears as he really wasn't enjoying floating due to the water getting in his ears.

So last week we finally bought him a very swish swimming cap from the swimming centre and today was the first day he wore it.

Well... Alan put the swimming cap on Spencer and when Spencer came running out to show me I yelled to Alan "do you think you've got it on properly" trying to keep back my fits of laughter.

As you can see by the photo below it wasn't on properly and changed the look of Spencer's face completely. Although it looks like Spencer is in pain from cap being too tight he actually thought he was pretty special and proceeded to run around the house excitedly.

Me? Well I just could not stop laughing at how silly and scary my son looked. Would you have recognised Spencer in this photo without me telling you it was him?

Needless to say the cap worked a treat at swimming and Spencer did some fantastic star fish floating ... and the best bit? NO water in his ears! Hooray!

It's ok... you can laugh at how silly he looks too... I know you are dying to!!