Swim Lessons

The past two weeks, Mikaela had swim lessons at the city pool.  She is still quite timid in the water but I didn't see growth this year.  She loves being in the water, swimming with a kick board or noodle, and wearing her goggles.  She still doesn't want to put her face or head in the water but is more willing to blow bubbles and such.  She's just not a risk-taker (not only in the pool, but in many things of life).  Still, here are photos from lessons.

Lining up for the diving board

confidently climbing onto the board

confidence waivering

needed assistance (aka teacher dropping her in)

sitting with her class while others "dive"

blowing bubbles with her pal, Caleb

with her certificate

Swim Lessons

Today was the final day of swim lessons.  Parents were allowed to come down and take pictures of their kids during the class.  They also received certificates at the end.  For some reason, Mikaela was very teary and fearful of anything but jumping on the "porch" which is the raised platform where they corral the preschoolers while teachers rotate through the kids to take them swimming.  We don't know what her deal was today, but here are the pictures we got.

trying to leave the pool at the start of class

waiting in the "porch" as she calls it

not thrilled about swimming

trying to keep her head out of the water

with her wonderfully patient teacher, Madison

Diving Day

For the past two weeks, Mikaela has been taking swim lessons.  She loves being in the water, but isn't much for putting her head under or her face in (even for blowing bubbles).  Her teachers also worked on getting her to float on her back.  All things have improved, but we've got a ways to go I think.  Today was day 7 of 8 classes and also "Diving Day."  All classes jump off the diving board at least once, even the preschool class.  Of course for them, as you'll see in the pictures, there is an instructor in the pool with a noodle to help catch them, and an instructor on the board to help guide them out and in many cases, drop them in.  Mikaela wasn't thrilled with it, but smiled at the end and bragged about the accomplishment.    These were taken with my phone so please excuse the poorer quality.  I didn't think to bring the real camera as tomorrow is actually the time when they let parents come down to the pools and take pictures.  So stay tuned for that post tomorrow.

Swim Lessons

The first two weeks of summer we enrolled Mikaela in the Parent & Tot class at our city pool.  This was the same class as last year, which she really enjoyed.  This year, however, it was a different story.  Being the beginning of June and the bizarre weather we had, the pool was often quite chilly and Mikaela is not a fan of that.  (Who can blame her?) She tried her best, but rarely lasted the entire 30 minute class.  Next year we'll know to do lessons in July or August.  

with her teacher