Jocelyn.

Jocelyn was adorable.
Blonde hair in pigtails.
Piercing blue eyes.
She weighed all of 21 lbs.
Regardless of whether the sun was out or not,
she was in the water trembling with lips icey blue.
"All done?!" was her most used phrase.
Her face would light up when she thought class was over
and she would start fake crying when she found out it wasn't over.
However, after just a couple of days, she learned to love swim class and
loved her friends.
Jocelyn's absolute favorite part of class was "Ring Around the Rosey" time
Despite the fact that the song is about the Black Plague and death,
it is one of a swim instructors best weapons.
The kids love holding hands,
spinning around,
singing,
and dunking themselves under water.
Jocelyn mumbled most of the song until the end; she knew the ending line.
"Ashes, ashes, we all fall down!"
Even when she was yelling with all her might,
Jocelyn still spoke softly.
And she had a bit of a lisp.
Jocelyn did not say ashes.
She didn't even say asses, which often is the most common slip.
No,
ever so sweetly Jocelyn said,
"Ah, shhhit, ah, shhhhit, we all fall down."
Really it was the most adorable thing.
Her poor mother though had to endure the embarrassment outside of swim class.
Jocelyn loved the song so much she sang it everywhere she went- in her own special way. :)