Addison had her first taste of swim lessons this year with the Red Cross. The lessons were Monday through Thursday for two weeks from 6:00-6:30. It was obviously not on her own yet, but sometimes I think she would have preferred that mom and dad not have been there so she could socialize instead of swim. She LOVES the water, but I truly believe she loved the social aspect just as much. Her class had four other swimmers which was the perfect size.
She made a ton of progress during her sessions. The true objective of the class was to get the children comfortable with the water. Luckily all of the kids in the class were water babies so we were able to focus on learning some basics. The first objective was to learn to blow bubbles. As you can imagine, this is not entirely natural. Her instinct was to hold her mouth open as we moved through the water (meaning she drank some good chlorine water), but she caught on very quickly and now blows bubbles in the pool and daily in her bath. She also worked on her back float (much better when you sing twinkle twinkle), using her arms and legs, jumping off the side and being passed both with her head in and above the water. PaPa and Lisa came for the last night of class, the presentation of skills, and Grammy and Dad were out of town and were very, very sad to miss. This was the only night that Dad missed! She was a star and we are looking forward to our class next year.
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| Bubble Blower! |
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| Bubbles and Legs! |
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| Happy Girl |
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| Not only does she climb all things at home, she climbed the wall of the pool. Notice everyone else is swimming :) |
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| Addison swimming after the duck. She even called it duck!! |
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| Swimming with her head fully under water. She popped up happy every single time! |
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| Jumping off the side for a grand finale - what a great time we all had! |
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