Learning to Swim!

Addison LOVES to swim, so I put her into swimming lessons at the new rec center. She took level 1 twice in Hurricane, but this year she moved on to level 2. She had a blast. She was in the same class as two of her cousins, Dallin and Dawson, and her cousin Camber was there too, but she was in a different class. At first I was thinking, "Two Weeks! That's it! What can they possibly learn in two weeks?" Well, I was amazed! All of the kids had progressed so much by the time it was over. All of the kids had the basic idea of swimming and some could do it quite well actually. Addison was the youngest and smallest in her class, but even she did pretty good. She probably would have learned even more if she would pay better attention. She liked to ignore the teacher too much and just do "bobs" up and down in the water. None of the kids passed level two because you have to be able to swim short way across the big pool without any help, but some were pretty close. Addison's teacher told me that Addison did really good other than she needs to pay a little more attention, but she LOVES the water and isn't scared of it which is a really good thing. I'll probably be putting her back in swimming lessons next month because I want her to keep progressing and not forget what she's learned.

Addison's teacher helped her most of the time in this video, but at the end she does it on her own. Which reminds me, one time she jumped into the water and jumped too far in and she turned around the grab the wall and it wasn't there. You could see a bit of panic in her eyes and the teacher started to rush to her and when he got to her we both realized she was staying above the water. She was doggie paddling her way to the wall, so he didn't help her at all he just stayed right behind her to make sure she made it. It was kind of cool to watch that. She is getting so big!

These are of Addi jumping off the diving board. The 2nd one has Dallin jumping off and then Addison. Right at the end you can kind of see the kid after Addison do a belly flop, poor kid. He jumped the same way every time and kept belly flopping.