Swimming Progress

We've been on vacation for the past week and I've stayed pretty far away from my computer. But I have a backlog of pictures, videos, and tales to share so I'll do my best to get everyone up-to-date over the next few days!

First up, Julia's swimming! She took lessons at the Greenwich Club this year and they were a huge success! I was so impressed with how much progress she made over just two weeks. By the end of the session, she was swimming the width of pool by herself holding onto a kickboard, she jumped into the deep end and swam to the instructor, she was comfortable going down the slide without anyone catching her at the bottom, and to my great surprise she got on the diving board! The video below is her first time up on the board and while it may seem a little anti-climatic it was a big accomplishment for her!!

Julia got a chance to put her lessons to work almost immediately as we left for vacation right after her last one. She spent all of last week swimming with the fish at Lake Cobbessee in Maine. The highlight for me was on the day before we left when she and I swam from the dock to the float (she was wearing arm floats) and as we rounded the float and headed back to the dock she said to me, "Mom! I'm a swimmer! Those lessons worked!!" Yes, they did!