Wednesday 7/24/24
The other day when I was coming back from helping with that move I learned about something that happened when my nieces were at a pool. My eight-year-old niece Lilah was swimming in the deep end. She's a good swimmer. Her sister, four-year-old Amelia, who was not in the pool, decided that she was going to go into the deep end, too, despite not having her Swimmies on and not being able, as of yet, to swim.
I was told that she might have forgotten she didn't have her Swimmies on, but Amelia is very headstrong and I easily could have seen her thinking she can do what anyone else can do, and so she went for it.
Her mother didn't see this, the lifeguard didn't see this, but Lilah did, and she swam over and rescued her sister.
Lilah was away with her other grandmother recently, and my sister sent me a text that she had received from Lilah who'd been using her grandmother's phone, asking if Amelia was still being "a little tirent" back home, which was both amusing and, admittedly, a reasonable question. But when it mattered, Lilah stepped up. Or swam up, I should say.
I stopped and got her a thank you card on the way home to let her know how proud I was, which I mailed yesterday. My mom saw Lilah the other day for the first time since this event at the pool and she said that she wanted to talk to her and Lilah responded by saying, "Is it about saving Amelia's life?" (it was) which is funny, but if she hadn't been there and acting bravely and without hesitation, something really bad could have happened.
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