Swimming Lessons

One of Jane and Marlynn's neighbors has a swimming pool so when we found out they were doing lessons I decided to sign the kids up. I signed both Elizabeth and Thomas up. Thomas is still quite young but since they were so cheap I thought it would be fun to give him some fun time in the water and maybe he would learn something.

We started with Thomas and after the first day he decided he was done and did not want to go back in the water. The idea of putting his head in and blowing bubbles did not go well. Well we continued and he did fabulous. I ended up signing him up for another week and a half and he loved it. It started with him not wanting to go in to him not wanting to get out and going down all the time. He has learned to swim underwater and not plug his nose anymore. He is become a little fish. He has even gone of the dive board without any floaties.

Elizabeth took a week of lessons. But they were so nice to let her just swim during Thomas' lessons which really helped her with her confidence. She went from not wanting to go in the deep without flippers to being able to jump in without flippers and jump of the dive board and swim to the side which has been huge accomplishment. She feels so much more confident and so do I.

We have been able to take her to seven peaks and she feels completely confident by herself.

Emilie was just frustrated the whole time because she could not go in the water so finally they said if I wanted to I could swim with her during the lessons. She was in heaven. This girl LOVES the water and has absolutely no fear. She just jumps in and doesn't care if she goes under. I might put her in some lessons next year.