Swimming Lessons

Eli started his first swimming lessons last week and had a blast! He’s taking the class at our gym, and there are three things I love about this setup:

1. I can put Charlie in the gym’s kids club, rather than chasing him around the pool (and trying to keep him out, which if you’ve seen how crazy active he is now, you know it would be impossible). This is the main reason why I decided to do lessons here – there are lots of great swim classes at various locations near our house, but this was KEY!

2. They only have four kids in each class, so Eli gets lots of one-on-one time with the teacher.

3. They have the class in the “therapy pool” – the hospital nearby sometimes does water therapy with patients here in this pool, which is probably 80 degrees or warmer. Eli has no qualms about getting in because it’s so comfortable.

Here’s Eli practicing straight arms -

Trying out the straight arms holding the float bar -

Not-so-straight : )

The teacher showing the kids how to kick -

I think this was Eli’s favorite part -

Attempting the back float : )

His cute class (the two on the right are brother/sister) -

Jumping in and putting his face in the water -

The teacher (Pam) would do “swirly whirlies” every time one of the kids jumped in and get their face in. Basically this was spinning around in the water and Eli loved it.

Eli had a hard time keeping his bum on the step while he was waiting for his turn -

I love the crazy pool hair :)

Jumping off the step toward the teacher -

Eli turned 3 this week!! I am behind with blogging but am hoping to catch up tomorrow or by Monday. It’s been a good (but BUSY) week, which is the theme of the next few weeks… hopefully I can get some blogging in here and there.