Swimming Update

Swimming is going so well. Both of the kids are doing great!! Ethan actually asks if it's a swimming day because he's so excited to go.

Madison can do the Back Skull for the whole length of the pool by herself (no kickboard). It's so much fun watching her do the Back Skull because you can tell it's her favorite thing. She's practically beaming, plus she can swim completely straight from one end to the other. At the swim school they have what's called "The Peanut". It helps teach kids how to dive in to the water. Madison is scared of this thing and hasn't wanted to go off of it. The first time she dove off she came out of the water and was almost in tears. So the next few times they didn't make her do it. We then had a few pep talks about having to keep trying things until it's not scary anymore. I told her when it's time to go off the peanut and she's scared to look at me. The next class they ended up using the peanut. Her instructor Tina must have told her she needed to try it again. Anyway, she looked at me and I could tell she was scared. I gave her a thumbs up and a big smile and she went off. She still doesn't love the thing, but at least she'll go off of it!

Ethan's task that we had to pump him up for was jumping off the side into the water. The same day I was giving Madi pep talks about the diving I was working on Ethan with jumping into the water. He looked up at me when it was his turn, grab ONE of Robin's hands and jumped in! Ethan has come so far from that first couple weeks of lessons. He puts his face in the water proabably 5 times each lesson. Now he'll put his face in the water and kick his feet while Robin pulls him so it's like he's swimming. Plus, he LOVES to go down the slide. We couldn't be prouder of them!!!