Swimming Lessons

I decided to take advantage having Jared off of work and get out of doing swimming lessons. Hooray! Jared enjoys the water so much more than I do, so he is doing the parent and me class with Nathan while Brielle does her first swimming lessons on her own. We go every evening from Mon-Thurs for 3 weeks. The kids LOVE it. We have one week left. They will be sad when it is over.

Jared is a bit out numbered. Only 1 other Dad...the rest are Moms. Nathan gets tired of singing Old MacDonald Had a Farm (truthfully, so does Jared). They want to SWIM for heaven's sake.When Brielle started 2 weeks ago, she DID NOT like putting her face in the water and wasn't very comfortable in water either. On the first day they played Simon Says and when asked to put their "whole selves" in the water, Brielle dipped her nose in while the rest of the class completely disappeared under water. I think her teacher may have been a little suspicious when a dry headed little girl came to give her five for going all the way under the water.

Our Bre has grown a ton in the following 2 weeks! This last Wednesday she spent 60% of the class time dunking herself in the water while the teacher did one on one work with each kid. Then on Thursday she jumped off of the diving board...THREE times. Others in her class chose to just do it once and required some coaching. Not Brielle. She walked right to the end of the board and jumped, again and again and again. Way to go Bre! We are proud of you.

Hanging out. Waiting for class to start.