Swimming Lesson Recap

Dash passed Level 5!!  He was excited.  He looked stronger than last time.  Angelina, Zeke & Graham need to repeat, but none were disappointed.  I think that if we hadn’t missed a year of lessons, Zeke & Angelina could have passed, too.  Dash, Angelina and Zeke VERY much enjoyed lessons this year; Zeke especially had a great time.  Graham wasn’t so enthralled.  There are only two pictures to remind us of the whole two weeks.  They were taken by Eric on his cell phone, so are fuzzy and not worth sharing.  Let me give you a mental picture though…

Picture #1:  Graham standing in front of a cement wall, goggles in place with a wide, happy grin – he looks ready to have a good time

Picture #2: Graham clinging to his instructor, his arms very tightly wound around his instructor’s neck.  Definitely NOT smiling, but tense.

Most of my time during lessons was spent entertaining a busy, ‘get me out of this hot house’ baby Louis!  I couldn’t imagine carrying another thing into that pool area – like a camera.  Graham only went to his lessons about half the time, the rest of the time he was with me or trying to make himself small so his instructor wouldn’t notice that he wasn’t in the water or anywhere near the edge of the pool.  No amount of my trying to convince him would change his mind about relaxing and giving it a real shot.  However, in hindsight, I realized that he hasn’t been in a pool often.  We moved when he was just two & we sure didn’t set up a pool that summer!  Something about showing a house and having a pool set up on the deck doesn’t really jive.  And well, out here on the farm, there is no grass… that would amount to a large mud pie.  So, no pool around here, either.  Poor child has been deprived!

The best part about this set-up was that all the kids had their lesson at the same time.  Yep, four kids in four different levels … 30 minutes a day for two weeks.  The instructors were great, too.  They let us know the first day that our child could be moved up a level if they had mastered the skills for the level in which they were enrolled … definite plus.  I’ll be back for more next year.