What a fabulous summer! We got to enjoy 8 weeks
of swimming lessons year. The girls went from no water skills at all to being good swimmers. Emily made it through all of the classes in one summer. She can swim from one end of the pool to other. I was amazed at her progress. Now she needs to work on her side breathing and endurance and she may be ready for the swim team next year. Alyssa had a good summer too. She made huge progress as well. She has one more class to complete next summer and then she is well on her way. She went from not wanting to leave the steps to jumping off the diving board and swimming across the short side of the pool.
Michael had a lot fun this summer once he figured out it was okay to get his face wet. The little turkey spent 7 weeks refusing to do a bob or get his face wet. The teachers were very patient with him and entertained him. One afternoon he was swimming along the wall of the pool and started screaming. He was screaming that a crab bit him. His teacher pulled him out of the pool and took him straight over to first aid. He was crying pretty hard and absolutely convinced a crab bit him. As it turns out, he was stung by a bee. However, to this day he will tell you a crab bit him during swim lessons this summer. He improved a lot this year too. By the beginning of our last week he finally decided he would try a bob. To all of our surprise, he now LOVES bobs. His entire last week he was so excited to finally be swimming and getting his face wet. Hopefully, he will still like it next summer...
All in all, we had a wonderful summer and I am thrilled that the girls can swim and Michael is comfortable in the water now. It was money well spent.
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