We snuck in a few bike rides and managed to get some extra time this year playing outside during the day before the heat really kicked into high gear. Now, it's swimming time!!!
SWIMMING
Last year we were connected with a swim coach, by a friend of mine, who does private swim lessons. She teaches the kids one on one how to, first and most importantly, swim survive. She releases them into the water and tell them to swim to the side. Once swimming to the side is achieved she moves on to more swim concepts including what happens if you fall in, jumping in and swimming to the side, swimming across, floating, diving down for sticks, etc. Last year we enrolled the 4 kids, yes, including Brynn. She was only 18 mos at the time and she learned to swim to the side. This year was ROUND 2.
All 4 kiddos spent just 6 days refining their swimming skills of swimming to the side, floating, swimming across, diving down, etc. Last year the twins and brynn spent almost the entire portion of their lesson crying. This year the crying stopped and they actually started to enjoy it. Well, after the initial good cry or two and a little bit of whining!
Brynn stopped crying by the second week and really took off with swimming and enjoying the water. I was so excited to see her jumping in and swimming all on her own at a friends house. The NO FEAR factor we have to work on as we develop a respect for the water and making sure someone is watching. But, loving the water is what we want. Next year we hope to sign Cole up for swim team. He's really a natural. Emily, the swim instructor (who is having her fourth baby this year too) said all of the boys are quite natural swimmers. That excites me as I swam on swim team for about 7 years as a kid. It really made the summer FUN.
Now, we put the pool up in the backyard, a real treat to having a bigger backyard is the pool space and the grass still to play in. They jump in and out all day and really enjoy being together outside. Even Westin gets to get in on the fun.
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