A Little Dip

Swimming lessons are going very well for all three girls and I'm amazed at their progress.  Lia is now a proficient swimmer and can swim without a float the whole time when we go as a family.  She panics any time a drop of water enters her goggles (she expects 100% goggle perfection....) but other than that, she does very well.  Rebecca (the swimming teacher) is now teaching her different swimming styles and they are working on the breast stroke now.  She is super excited about her frog leg kick!

Erin and Halle are mastering the art and timing of taking a breath and have improved tremendously.  At the apartment pool there is a smaller area that makes a semi circle fully surrounded by a step for sitting.  The span is probably about 10 feet from side to side and I feel fine letting Erin and Halle both swim without their float in this smaller, enclosed area of the pool.  They still struggle if they happen to get water in their mouth instead of air, but usually they do very well.  Erin figured out how to come up for air first, so she is a little ahead of the game on that front, but Halle has completely mastered how to move in the water and can swim SO FAST it is nuts.  They both know how to do freestyle arms ("arms out of the water") and breast stroke arms ("circle arms").  All three seem to prefer circle arms when they swim.  The major monkey on Erin and Halle's backs is the art of diving down to get something on the bottom.  They both want to SO BAD and can seem to get their little bodies to go down that far.  Something to work toward!!!

Erin

Halle