You are going to need a really great sense of humor with this one. When my son was that young his excuse for getting in the wading pool in mid-April was - Buff wanted some one to swim with him. - Buff was our Golden Retriever and usually his favorite swimming hole was the creek. My Mom and me were thankful that Buff opted for clean water that day but my Gramma scolded us for taking it to darn lightly.She raised 4 girls and 1 boy-.where Mom raised 4 boys and me. So as long as there was no blood involved things were cool. P.S. my son just turned 39 on May 4th and we had snow on the 3rd but he went swimming on his B-day -he is my DIL problem now,,, but I still had to laugh he wore long pants and sleeves. He is wired uniquely : )