K.Z. (ds-6) is going to a birthday party today.  Even better, it is a swimming party (oh, to be 6 and be that excited about putting on a bathing suit in the middle of the fall/winter).  He can't wait.  

K.Z. is a confident swimmer.  No expert at all, but he grew up swimming in my mom's pool and is not scared of the water.  Give the boy some floaties or a kick board and he would swim across the English Channel.  So I had no qualms whatsoever about sending him along to this party until he said, and I quote...

"I packed my goggles so I can't drown".