Our Mermaid and our Fish

Both kids have been in swimming lessons - Athena for the past two weeks; Carter for the past week. Both finished tonight.

Athena - started out this summer swimming her strongest ever. She goes under water and would try to do actually swim. She soared during swim lessons and passed with flying colors. She will swim for 10 seconds under water and does the crawl really well (they haven't taught her how to turn her head yet to breathe). She also jumps off the diving board. I didn't, oh, yes I did just write that she JUMPS OFF THE DIVING BOARD IN THE DEEP END. Can you even believe it? We are so pleased and excited for her. She is just loving swimming this year. She has passed level 2 and I go tomorrow to sign her up for Level 3 which will start on July 6th.

Carter - this year we're still in adult/tot swim which means that a parent is a participant in the class. The goal is not to teach the child how to swim but to be comfortable in the water. Last year was not fun for anyone and this year started out as same ole same ole. But, by the second night, Carter started to get more confident and he really began to take off and he did such an incredible job. He was smiling and happy and by tonight he would dunk, jump in and try to swim on his own (with a bar bell or a float bar to hold onto). After class tonight he put on his goggles and started to swim under water in the toddler pool - he's never even considered doing that before.

Huge steps for both kids this summer so far. I am super duper proud of them both and can't wait to see what other wonders this summer will bring!