The screech, when I first let go, was chilling. It made the hair of everyone at the pool stand up. Kenna was so freaked out when I let go of her to let the floaties do the work you would have thought I was taking her Halloween candy away.

Elle jumped in and let the floatie wings do the work right away. Kenna was an entirely different story. I wasn’t sure how I was going to get over this one. After a number of poor attempts, I bribed her with gum.

It went something like this. You let go of me and count to 3 while your floating and I’ll let you have a piece of gum when we get home. I think she was floating with in the next minute. I guess we all have our own motivators.

After that Kenna stayed in the water by herself for 20 minutes. She was hooked.

Sometimes getting over the hump is the most difficult part. Then it’s all downhill from there. We just need the right motivation. In this case it was a stick of EXTRA (Watermelon flavor.)

Kenna spent the entire year in dance class. She went every Wednesday. What can I say? This is the result. I cried through the whole thing.

A star is born.