Swimming Lessons

Our final session of swimming lessons ends tomorrow. It's been a great summer of swimming, but I am excited to be done. Because we do the lessons at a private pool, I can't get them all back to back, so much of our summer has revolved around the lessons. This session I was able to plead with her to put Brynn and Abby in at the same time so we had to go at 9 a.m. for them, 11 a.m. for Isaac (with me) and 12 p.m. for Aaron. It literally takes up half of our day, but the kids have improved a ton. Brynn already has a very pretty stroke, but Abby has really improved her stroke and breathing and has become a beautiful swimmer. Aaron has become so much more comfortable in the water. I can see him gaining confidence and I LOVE it! We'll still have to work with him to get him safe in the water, but it's coming. He is a totally different boy than he was at the beginning of the summer. I am so proud of him. It's been great watching him grow in this way. To think that the boy who started our screaming as I dropped him off board, would move to jumping by himself (but nearly on top of the teacher), to now jumping as far off as he can (and almost make it to the side alone), has been pretty amazing! I've never signed up for "Mommy and Me" with any of my kids. I am WSI certified and so I've always thought it was a waste of money to pay to have someone teach me how to teach my child, and I've also always had a smaller baby to take care of, but this year I couldn't make Isaac watch the kids and not get in, so I signed up for a "Mommy and Me" with him. I have had so much fun and I've really learned alot. Debbie does a different program than American Red Cross and I think it's really effective. She even had all of the moms brush up on CPR with her dummies. It was a great reminder. I'm really glad we did it.