We Passed!

Lane did it! We just completed Lane's two week swimming class. This was his second year of lessons and he did great! I got to swim with him everyday last week and Clint took his turn this second week. We both really enjoyed learning how to help Lane learn to swim. Lane happily gave me his certificate after he got it today, he was too busy to pose for a picture with it.

The boys during class. Lane's class had 4 kids in it. I think 7 or 8 started the class but about half didn't last. I wonder if it had something to do with forcing your child to go underwater? We started out last week with the easy stuff, paddling and kicking. Lane is a great paddler! As for his legs, were still working on them.

Then, we moved on to the more exciting stuff. Going under water and grabbing for rings.

As this week went on, Lane got more and more confident.

Clint really wanted Lane to learn to jump into the pool. There was a little boy in Lane's class that was really into it, but as you can see Lane just wasn't into it. Lane is a lot of things, but by looking at this, I think we can cross graceful off the list.

And finally, part of the class was teaching Lane how to pull himself out of the pool. It wasn't my favorite thing to do with him because when he got out Lane would sometimes try to escape from the pool area. When I took him last week he got away from me and a lifeguard had to bring him back, then this week I was able to catch him on video escaping from Dad.

I'm so proud of my little fish! I can't wait to go to the neighborhood pool tomorrow to practice all our new tricks!See you later!