Swim Lessons - I'm a Big Boy!

You had your first swim lesson today at the town pool. The class was enormous. It consisted of you and another little boy named Matthew.

Mommy helped you say hello to the teachers, Miss Christina and Miss Emily. You were scared.  I realized that Miss Emily was an old friend of Cecilia's so I let you in on that fact, but it had almost zero effect.  Then I swam away so you could learn all by yourself.  This did not go well.

You refused to speak to the teachers, staring down at your feet most of the time. When it was time for arm circles, you just stood there. When it was time to put your arms over your head, you didn't budge.  Like a puppeteer, Miss Emily went to work moving your sad, limp limbs. After several minutes of this, Mommy came back to help and provide some reassurance.  We all sat and did arm circles together so you could see it was okay.  You weren't buying it.

Next, Miss Christina threw some colorful weighted rings into the pool and asked you and Matthew to retrieve them.  Well, lo and behold, being assigned a task was all it took to break you out of your shell!  You scurried around collecting rings and proudly turned them in.  You didn't even notice that Mommy floated away.

The rest of the swim lesson went very well.  Matthew kept trying to swim away from the teachers,  but you were a star pupil.  You put your chin in the water, poured water on your head, made bubbles, jumped into the deep end and finished the lesson off with several runs down the twisty water slide.

It was awesome and so are you.