Swimming Lessons

After spending 5 weeks in the pool in Miami and seeing how fearless Logan became, we decided to go ahead and get her in some swimming lessons this summer so she can start learning the basics of water safety. The local Y here has a great program that starts with moms and tots which B will actually be able to start next year while Logan swims in a preschool class.

It's a three week program that has two, hour long classes a week. So, we go M-W from 9:30-10:30. Here's L getting ready for day one on Monday:

She has two instructors but they mostly facilitate and instruct the parents and then grab the kiddos to do things every once and a while. Mondays class helped acclimate the kids to the water (which is frigid, by the way and is indoors so there's no help from the sun). They learned the buoyancy of their own bodies.

Today she learned how to kick her legs while only holding on to two of my fingers. She was SO proud of herself when she got it! She did so well with it that the instructor went ahead and gave her a kick board to practice her kicking. I think the next class we will be working on submersion...which Logan already has nightmares about--she came into the room last night around 2:30a and woke me to tell me she didn't want to go underwater at swimming lessons. Oh boy. They don't push them, though, so we'll wait until she's comfortable and then try it.

Of course, we love a chance to show off our fun bathing suits. :)

She's so worn out when she gets home that I practically have to beg her to stay awake until naptime. Today we got home, worked on her school activities for the day and then turned the TV on to keep her awake. Hopefully she takes a good nap!

We have B's 4 month checkup this afternoon, so I'm sure we'll have a post later!