Swim Lessons - Week #4

We close out week #4 very encouraged! Owen still doesn't love floating in the water, but I have to remind myself that the focus with him is more on survival than recreation. If he fell in the water, I want him to be able to survive till he can be pulled out. We can work on the having fun as we go to the pool as a family. All that to say, he's got his floating down, and he's doing about 90% of his roll on his own. Miss Courtney said he'll more than likely perfect that this week, and then they'll move on to him doing the roll/float in various forms of clothing.



Ethan, however, is LOVING being in the water! It's crazy how much his attitude has changed in just the last week. On Thursday of this week (just one week after he finally decided swimming wasn't so bad), he initiated rolling from his back into a swim by himself. So now he can do the complete sequence of swimming to floating on his back to swimming all on his own. Miss Courtney said that he will more than likely graduate this coming week. She'll start the week by having him swim in some swim gear, and the she'll move up to various forms of clothing. If he's able to do his swim/float/swim sequence in clothing, then he'll be done with lessons! Just completing what we have thus far, really makes me so excited about the upcoming summer and some serious time at the pool!