Swim Lessons

For the month of July, we signed Austin up in swim lessons....at 8:30 am.  I figured getting up and ready that early would give us some good practice for the upcoming school year. For the first 2 weeks Austin was in Starfish.

 Some of the things he worked on was back & front floats for 5 seconds unassisted, kicking with legs straight and face in the water for 5 seconds, bobs and bubbles, and jumping into the pool unassisted.

 In this picture he is practicing the "rocket" position as they call it.

 He passed his Starfish class. During the 2nd week I noticed so much improvement in his swimming skills from lessons and swimming out at his grandpa's pool, that I thought we should continue on. So Austin spent the next two weeks in the Seahorse class.

 The second week they took the kids down to the 7 foot deep end. It didn't seem to bother Austin at all. He jumped right into the water and swam back to the side unassisted. He also worked on front/back floats for 10 seconds unassisted, and was able to swim about 3/4 of the length of the shallow pool by himself.

 He is quite the little swimmer and even passed his Seahorse class!!!

After swimming, we would go down to the locker room to change clothes and they loved that! They ran around looking at all the differnt color of locks that were on the locker doors. Somehow they found that fascinating.