We signed the kids up for some super intense swimming lessons and let me tell you, the results are amazing. I can’t decide if I should show you the most surprising one first or last…. I guess we’ll go from oldest to youngest.
Audrey and Kate started a month ago and Audrey caught onto everything really fast. She’s on the swim team now (not a competitive swim team) and doing awesome. She’s even learned how to do the butterfly stroke. Something about Audrey is she inherited her dad’s confidence and she believes she can do things which I really think helps.
Kate made some awesome progress right from the start and then when they started focussing more on technique with her, she started getting feisty and wanting to stick to what made her feel secure (flipping onto her back). So, sometimes we’ll go to a lesson and the teachers will be like, “She’s totally ready for swim team.” And then three minutes later, they’ll say, “Maybe we should do another week of lessons with her.” Something about Kate is, she didn’t inherit her dad’s confidence. She’s more like me and second guesses herself a lot. She’s told me that she doesn’t really want to do swim team, but she does want to continue with lessons. She really is doing awesome though.
Simon started lessons this week. On day one, he floated on his back on his own for an entire minute. His teacher put her hands up to show me she wasn’t helping him and then started counting out loud. When she got to 30, she looked up at me with big eyes. Then at 60, she finally grabbed him to move onto something else. Afterwards, she said, that just doesn’t happen in a first lesson. He’s made a lot of progress in just a few days. This video is of day three. He knows how to make his way to the surface and flip onto his back. He’s still working on making his way to the side on his own, but when he gets to the side, he knows he’s supposed to flip over and grab on and pull himself out.
It is a good feeling knowing that all of my kids would know what to do if they fell into the water.
