Swim Lessons

Cole & Jo are taking swim lessons for a couple weeks and are doing well. They both swim under water while holding their breath but they don’t swim with their head above water; or rather they can’t tread water very well. They are learning here how to float on their backs and then to float on their tummies.

Both kids kill time while waiting their turn with the teacher by swimming under water around the step area where they wait. Good/Bad? Well both have been talked to a couple times by their teacher to keep their heads above water until it’s their turn. We laugh at them and smile to see they love the water so much but also talked to them about following directions and good listening skills.

After swim lessons we wait for open swim to start and let them swim for another hour or two. Jo’s first day of open swim showed us how tough and gutsy she can be. After a half hour or so of jumping off the diving board she tried to dive in like the big kids were doing. We both had our mouths drop to the floor as we saw her heading in off the diving board face up and headfirst…shock would be a good description I guess. When she came up she was not happy and her face was quite red. The next day she said she didn’t want to dive in the pool again because the water slapped her face the day before, and she was right, it slapped her face red. :O)

Jo has gotten back on the diving board along with going down the big slide alone. Cole is doing both as well alone and I’m thinking he will ask soon to try the tall diving board…don’t know about that yet.
Swimming…what a grand thing for summer! They are just loving it!!