The kids did NOT enjoy swimming lessons at all!! They would complain about them all day....our lessons were in the evening, so they would stress about them all day. On our drive to the lessons, they would both start to cry...once we got there, they were both crying, most of the time I would have to lift them and put them in the pool to Ms. Carol. Once they were in the pool, they would do what Ms. Carol would tell them to, but they didn't like it. Both Lily and Lucas already knew how to doggie paddle but neither one of them wanted or liked putting their faces under water, so this was our most important challenge. Ms. Carol doesn't ask them, she taps them on the back of the head and they have a choice to do it by themselves or she will do it for them, they learned quickly that they would do it for themselves!
Here are a few pictures of the kids taking more lessons:
Ms. Carol working with Lily
Making sure Lily gets her head under enough.
Lucas learning how to float
Lily swimming to Ms. Carol..
Here are a few videos of swimming....you can see how neither one of them enjoyed the swimming lessons. I think part of it was because they stressed about it all day and built themselves up to really not liking it!! You will hear Danny and I argueing some, disregard that please!! Danny gets upset when Lily would cry, but that was just her nervousness. She ended up getting better.
The very last day of swimming lessons, Ms. Carol had them jumping off the diving board, doing dives....and of course, I forgot my camera!!! I hated it....Mom came to watch and she had her camera, so I took some pics that I will upload later, but I didn't have videos. The kids were so proud of themselves.
Now when we go out on the boat, both of my kids jump in from the boat and put their faces under!! Yeah...Whoo!!! The lessons DID work!! I'm excited about the outcome and the kids are too, plus we got to meet a very neat lady and become friends.
Thanks to Ms. Carol for touching our lives!
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