Swimming Lessons 2010

We finished another swimming lesson season. This year I got to sit by a friend that I've rarely hung out with while living here. Making it that much better. Thanks, Amanda.

Here's Ella and Lauren making good use of their time while waiting for their turn in the pool.

The Least Attentitive Spectator Ever Award goes to Dash.

If I didn't have him strapped in the stroller, I had to be a foot behind him all over the area to make sure he didn't try going in the pool. Which he did try once or twice or every lesson day.

Amaya's lessons were first. She was a trooper. Some days it was so cold all she could do was shiver. She still loved it and loved the anticipation of swimming in Ms. Tina's pool.

This picture makes her look a bit like a bobble head doll.

Blowing bubbles. Amaya doesn't like putting her whole face in the water. We'll get her there.

What a beginner's streamline looks like.

Ella's class was second. She really got it this year. She wasn't fearful, and she could swim a couple of strokes, doggie paddle, swim a couple of strokes all the way around the pool. Shad and I were very impressed at how far she's come from last year.

The doggie paddle part.

A stroke or two, maybe three.

I don't have any pictures of her doing the breast stroke, but it is her best. She likes the way it feels to paddle and go somewhere so much that she forgets the glide part of the stroke.

I love that my kids love the water and want to go swimming.