Swimming Lessons-

We just finished up some swimming lessons. Owen took a level 1 preschool class all by himself (I still think it's crazy that he's so grown up) and Ava & I took a Parent & Tot class. It was fun to have to go swimming twice a week.

Ava was very clingy the first class but after that she loved the water and especially jumping in. Mostly we play & hang out in the water and she practiced some things like floating on her back, floating on her belly, hanging on to the side of the pool, trying to get out by herself, jumping in (for this you need to count to three or say ready, set, go so that you train your baby not to jump in without you knowing- not that this would ever happen), going under the water, kicking her legs, swimming with her arms and then we also say some songs like Once there was a snowman, Motor Boat, Motor boat go so fast, and well, I can't remember any more right now. It was fun to hang out with Ava. Probably my favorite was when we started practicing jumping into the water- I would count to three and hold my fingers up and Ava would scrunch up her little shoulders & hold both her index fingers to count number 1 with me. It was pretty cute.


Owen's class was just at the other end of the pool where Ava & I were- it was fun to see what he was doing. Owen also got a lot more comfortable in the water. He practiced the monkey crawl (moving around the side of the pool with your arms), how to get out of the pool by himself, putting his head under water, jumping in from the side and going all the way under, kicking straight legs on his back & his belly (and played red light green light for kicking), swimming with his arms scooping big ice cream scoops, and probably my favorite was when I looked over and saw him standing on the stairs with his arms straight in the air with his hands together waiting for his teacher- they called it 'chop, chop timber'-he was standing tall like a tree waiting for his teacher to come chop him down then he would fall over and practice swimming by holding his arms still up and kicking.