Swim lessons officially began on Monday.
(Cutie Pie is the one in the middle in the blue rash guard)
This is the first year that I have not had to enter the water with a child as part of a Mom and Tot class! Woo hoo! Hooray for swimming skills and not having to don a bathing suit in public. Instead I get to slowly melt in the heat while I watch my children from the pool deck. At least there is an awning.
Both of our boys are good swimmers already so swim lessons aren’t about learning to actually tread water and survive a watery encounter. I guess it comes with the territory when you live in Florida. It’s pretty much a necessity that children learn to swim competently at a young age when there is so much water around. I am thankful that our three-year-old can dive down to the bottom of the deep end to retrieve dive rings and pull himself out of the water from the side of the pool.
This year, swim lessons this year are more about fine tuning our boys’ skills. I’d like them to learn the different strokes (not Diff’rent Strokes) and I would like Cutie Pie to learn to float on his back.
Of course, getting to jump off the starting blocks is another perk…
Adventures of Four 