Friday June 24th, Samantha finished a 2 week session of swimming lessons and passed off another level of swimming! She did “Preschool 1” during the winter and she just passed off “Preschool 2” with flying colors. She has been moved up to “Preschool Plus” to start working on strokes, of course she can’t start that until she turns 4 in the fall.
I don’t think all parents enjoy being at their kids swim lessons, but at this stage, I absolutely love it. Seeing the pure joy on my daughter’s face as she’s in the pool is just amazing. Most people probably know that I was (am) a swimmer. My mom put me in lessons soon after I nearly drowned myself in a lake at 2. I started swim team around 8 when I was no longer progressing in lessons, and did it year around until high school. I was never an exceptionally GREAT swimmer (in the world of swimming) but it was always my sport and there is a great deal of calm to me when I am swimming.
In her first swimming class Samantha went from liking the pool but not the bathtub to LOVING all water. This time you couldn’t get her stay above the water. If she wasn’t working with the instructor, she was dunking her head underneath. She can now float on her tummy and back unassisted. She practiced putting her ear in the water to learn how to rotary breath, she kicked with a kickboard, and moved her arms while on her back “tickle, Tee, Touch” and “penguin flaps”. She also jumps straight into the pool and doesn’t want ANY kind of help. She’s not swimming yet, although she can make it a couple feet on her own and grasp the edge. Once she can swim clear across the pool without it being a chore… then she can say she “can swim”. But I am proud of where she is.
As a special treat for their last day of class, they played a game of tag. Samantha volunteered to be “it” first. It was super cute, but we’ll have to work on her kicking so she moves a bit quicker.
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