This was the 4th and last lesson in Sophia's first swimming lessons. Michael and I had already been talking that we wanted to sign her up for more lessons for sure. We don't have a little swimmer on our hands yet. And so far, it's hard to tell if she's having a good time with the lessons.
Well this week she seemed to have a great time! Oddly, the water was at it's coldest, so it was the shortest lesson of all, at about 15 minutes. The smallest baby in the class barely made it ten minutes. Not only did Sophia seem to have the most fun during this lesson, she seemed to do the best with the skills. She kicked and almost blew bubbles (still not sure why she'll do this in the tub and not in the pool!) and floated and jumped and jumped and jumped from the side. She smiled a few times and even waved to me a couple times as I sat on the side and took pictures. Not sure what prompted the change but as we left we signed her up for more lessons so we won't have any breaks and will continue with a class every Saturday....she is excited to keep swimming and we are excited to see her enjoyment each week. Here are the pictures!
This was the whole class. Michael wasn't the only guy...the lady whose back is to us (she was the French one!), her husband is somewhere in the pool...her daughter Leah is with the instructor across from her in this pic. And next to Michael and Soph is Lily, the tiniest girl in the class. Her mom is verrrryy close to having a new baby...a boy...so we won't be seeing them in the next swim class! And the little boy, Caden, was the only boy in the class. He was almost swimming by himself...but he did have a little swim float thing on his back to help him out, haha. Sophia loved all the other 'babies' in the class. :-)
Hi, Mommy! I'm gonna jump to Daddy now! I'm doing so good today, right??!!
Climb-y on the wall. Since class she has been climb-y on our furniture too. Yay.
She only had to sit and jump in. But Caden next to her had to jump from a standing position. Not to be outdone, she decided to stand up and jump in too.
Michael let her face get wet, her mouth and nose go under when she jumped in a lot of the time. She didn't really seem to care and kept wanting to do it again!
Swimming with her instructor. And a big smile on her face!!
Floating on her back with her teacher, just relaxing in the cold water. We won't get this instructor for our next set of swimming lessons (she's not teaching them) but hopefully Sophia will have as much fun and learn as much from her next teacher...to relax in the water and smile and pick up a few skills too. Michael and I were talking about her skill level and he said that right now he is still at the point if he saw her fall in the pool he would jump in to get her even if his cell phone was in his pocket. He said once he feels like she is a good enough swimmer, he will still jump in to get her if she fell in, but would feel comfortable enough to take the time to take his cell phone out of his pocket first before jumping in! We are a long way from his cell phone being safe I am afraid. I suggested that he just keep his cell phone away from all bodies of water until she knows how to swim and we agreed that would be the best thing to do. :-) But after this last class we are at least optimistic that Sophia is excited to learn how to swim and looking forward to all the swimming lessons to come!
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