Last night was "parent night" at the lessons. Which basially meant that we parents who have been sitting around for the last 8 days of lessons got to venture out of the snack bar area and into the pool area to watch, take pictures of, and cheer on our little swimmers. Jeff and I have been sharing the duties of taking the kids... I pretty much have been taking Skylar and he's been taking Abes and Bunt. There's been a couple of exceptions to that, but in general, that's the way it's gone down.
Skylar is in "Water Pups". Which is just an introduction to the water... they play games, get comfortable in the water (I think the instructors spend a lot of time trying to convince their little charges that they *can* put their faces in the water and survive.)
Well, let me tell you, our little Skylar has completely shocked me. For those of you who remember the little girl who would not go near a swimming pool that was deeper than 6 inches... and who has demonstrated the largest self-preservation instincts of all our children... well, you'd think that she's grown gills or something. She hops right in the water and volunteers to go first when the teacher wants them to jump in the water or go off the diving board. She LOVES it.
Hunter is in Level 5. This is his second time at level 5... he started last summer with Colton, but apparently (according to him) he had some trouble with the backstroke and the butterfly. He is doing better at them this time and thinks he'll pass. Who knows? What I do know is that he'll be done with swimming lessons after this summer. If he's not improved in those two areas, I don't think that another 2 weeks of half hour lessons will solve his technique.
However, (and I may just be a delusional mother here) I personally think that he's a natural swimmer. Like maybe he could become the next Michael Phelps (do I have Olympics on the brain, or what?) if we got him involved in competive swimming. I might just look into that, because I think he's got mad swimming skillz.
Avery is in Level 1. She did Water Pups last year, so she's old enough for "real" lessons. She seems to be having few issues with fear this time around. She's fine as long as her feet can touch the bottom, but doesn't seem to want to try to actually swim.
Oh, she still likes to get in the pool with her swimvest and get all crazy like that, but as much as well try to tell her she can learn to swim without the vest... she ain't all that interested. But, man, she looks good at the poolside, doesn't she?
And, Kaia's been heartbroken everytime we leave the house to take the other kids to lessons. I'm sure she'd jump right in and mix it up... but since she still has a couple of summers to wait (she'll be old enough the summer of 2010... which seems like it should be a long ways away, but...)
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