First Swim of 2015

Little fish!

Swim lessons started yesterday for William (his third round) and Grace (her first time). We are doing safety swim with Miss Jennifer - William's very first swim teacher. She's great and we missed her last summer, so I'm happy to be back with her. Another nice thing is the location of the swim lessons - right down the street at the pool here in our neighborhood. An easy commute.

William volunteered Grace to go first. She jumped into Miss Jennifer's arms without a second thought. She saw she has a sticker box and was willing to do anything. Grace didn't shed a single tear. I thought she might be a little frustrated with it, but didn't bother her too much! Toward the end of her lesson she was asking for me, but she still wasn't crying. Great job, Grace!

Grace happy to swim to get a sticker

Then it was William's turn and he was happy at first, but cried once she made him go under water. William had told me the day before that he didn't want any water in his eyes and that he was going to bring his googles, so I had a feeling this wasn't going to be the happiest moment for him. Sorry! No googles allowed at your lessons! Ha! He swam to the ledge a few times and did just fine though. 

William ready to go

A great first day! We're done by 9 a.m. and off to enjoy the rest of our day. Here's to little fish being pros at swimming by the time summer starts!

Hugs for a great first lesson

CHEESE!

Let's Get Swimming!

William started swim class this week at the YMCA and so far so good! I know he loves the water, but I was wondering how he would like some of the unpleasant water dunking. The class is only 10 minutes, but 10 minutes every day for 6 weeks. This isn't an attempt to turn him into Michael Phelps. He isn't learning freestyle and the butterfly at this moment -- the purpose is to teach him water safety and in the event he falls into a pool/lake/body of water that he will instinctively know to float and go to the edge. Guess this is what you do when you live in Florida and water is nearby every where!

The first day William met the instructor who is very nice and he didn't have one issue going into the pool with just her. We have been three days now and he cries throughout the lesson, but not at all in a terrible way. She actually told me he's pretty calm for a first timer. We encourage him, tell him good job and it was so funny - yesterday toward the end of the lesson and being dunked under water, he would come up whimpering, but started clapping for himself. You can tell he's proud that he's enduring through such a difficult task!

Today he sat at the edge of the pool staring at the instructor with another student. He loves splashing on the side and tried to go to the steps to get into the water. I think we will have a pretty good swimmer on our hands one day! For now we will work on the basics though... close your mouth when you go under water (which he is doing really well already!).

Let's get swimming!