Ha's homework and Hee's swimming breaking through day

I thought that we would stop going swimming on weekday nights after Ha has homework because he was usually very slow at doing his homework. Yesterday, Ha brought his homework home. In 2nd grade, they had a homework calendar, and each day, they needed to finish the homework based on the homework calendar that the teacher assigned. Normally, it will be 20 minutes spelling and math homework and 20 minutes reading time each day. I don't worry about the reading time because Ha likes to read, and he reads every day even when nobody asks him to. However, asking him to write the homework was my headache for Ha's kindergarten and 1st grade. He's so slow and not very concentrated, and I needed to call him many times before he started doing his homework.

Yesterday, after he had snack, I asked him to do the homework. I introduced him the timer, and I told him that the teacher said that the homework could be done in 20 minutes, so let's try to see if what she said was true. Also, if he could finish his homework early, we could go swimming at night. He was very interested in the "timer" idea, so he did his best to do his homework without asking for water, without walking to the living room, without playing with his pencil, and he finished his homework in 17 minutes. He was so happy, and I kept my promise, so we had an early dinner and went to YMCA at night.

Ha loved to swim, and even though he's still in 狗爬式，he had no problem at 換氣。In the pool, he was very relaxing and exciting. Hee was afraid to put his head in, but he liked to play in the water, too, so every night, he loved to go along. Last night, Ha asked him if he wanted to see some strange creature down in the water, and Hee immediately put his mouth, nose, eyes and forehead into the water without the second thought, and from that moment on, Hee was ok to put his face into the water, but he was not ready to put the whole head in yet. However, it's still a good break through for Hee. Now, Hee called Ha his swimming coach, and I believed that Ha will do the trick for Hee to put his whole head in in the near future.