Thursday, September 24, 2009

Summer of Swimming

This summer the kids were lucky enough to partake of swimming lessons many times up at Grandma's. They love having Uncle Blake for their teacher and love that it gets us out to the pool every day.
This was Lilly's first year taking lessons. . . . . don't let the smile fool ya. She cried and screamed a lot during lessons and was completely uncooperative. At the end of class the kids always go up off the diving board while their teacher catches them in the water. One class I was surprised to see her march right up there and be the first one in line to jump off. I was very impressed with her bravery until she realized what it was she was doing up there, turned around and started pushing the five kids behind her over like dominos to get off that thing! At least she still had fun playing in the water after class.

Somehow I didn't get a picture of Rilee during her class, but here she is in her swimsuit at least. Rilee was just like Lilly in swimming when she was her age, and has turned out to be an EXCELLENT swimmer.
This was Cameron's first time in the deep end class. As you can see, he liked to swim pretty close to the rope. This was earlier in the summer though. He now swims all over the pool.
While Luke was not in any of the classes, he often enjoyed a little dip after lessons were over.

1 comment:

Grandma Bethany said...

What a fun summer we had with so much swimming. I loved watching the kids get so comfortable in the water and becoming such great little swimmers.