Who Would've Thought

Three weeks ago, if you would have told me that Mr. "Don't get my Hair Wet," and Miss "I NOT Gonna Pook my Face in the Water" would be doing this

or this

or this (yes, holding hands and actually being EXCITED before swim practice!!)

I would have said you were crazy. But fortunately, I'm the proud mother of two fish and I couldn't be more excited! Todd still has about two weeks left of lessons. He's doing a great job swimming and is still working on mastering the transition to a float so he can take some breaths and rest before turning back over to swim. I fully anticipate that by the end of next week he will be swim/float/swimming and completely independent in the pool.

ABCs

Schools out for the summer and I'm already completely pruned up from the amount of time we've spent in the pool. The kids have pretty much been in the pool everyday for the last 3 weeks. Add that to the time I've spent in the pool (don't laugh) learning to swim, and I'm pretty sure I'm becoming part amphibian. The kids both started back with their daily ISR swim lessons this morning and I'm fairly optimistic about this season! I'm pretty comfortable with Hayley in the water at this point as she's been swimming and floating around the deep end on her own for over a week now. Her biggest issue was that she REFUSED to put her face in, so her swim was more or less a doggy paddle. I've negotiated, bribed, and pleaded with Hayley for the past two months to put her face in the water to no avail. Her swim teacher convinced her in the first 5 minutes today. Fabulous. Little T has been much more of a spoil sport when it came to the water, and quite frankly I'm a big softy when it comes to him fussing at me, so I haven't been pushing him to swim. He seems to remember what he learned last year though and Ms. Amy seems to think he'll be swimming like a fish in no time. I'll be relieved to feel confident in his ability to float and get himself out of a body of water on his own. This time of year it's like a daily occurrence to hear about a local toddler drowning... AWFUL!

When we're not in the water, we've been hitting the books. I just wrapped up my studies to become a certified Nutrition and Wellness Consultant and spent a grueling weekend in a classroom at UCF completing the USATF Level 1 certification course. Hayley has been studying up on learning to tell time, and Todd has been going through ABC's bootcamp with Drill Sargeant Hayley. She seems to have taught him well! We gave him a (post spaghetti dinner) quiz last night!