Swimming Lesson 2011

The first few weeks of July, the kids had swimming lessons. As I previously mentioned, it was glorious for me. They had their lessons at the same time, so I was able to lounge in the shade and watch, and then go home after half and hour. Marvelous.

I will start with Megs. She is quite the swimmer, and worked on mastering all of the different swimming strokes. I don't have many pictures of her, because she was under water the majority of the time.

She of course instantly made a friend.

Now Jackson. He is very comfortable with his hybrid doggy paddle/swimming stroke, and unfortunately it did not evolve to full swimming for him during this set of lessons.

He did however master the back float and back stroke:

And also got much better at diving:

Now little Sade. The first day she refused to participate. I sat on the side of the pool and ignored her until she decided it actually looked fun. It took about 25 minutes. From that day on she timidly participated. Hallelujah!

They all graduated!

Although in Sadie's case I believe the grading must have been fairly lenient.