Swimming Lessons

Swimming lessons have started up again. This time we signed up Mabel as well as Emmeline. I dont think that they are as much fun since they are private lessons instead of group lessons. Apparently, private lessons are the current trend right now and there were not enough kids signed up for group. Luckily, the Y gave us the group discount even though the lessons ended up being private. We'll try for the group ones again when we get to Dallas.

In the mean time, Emmeline has been working on swimming with her head under the water. She has made good progress and its fun to watch her skills develop. Her teacher discovered what an imaginative child Emmeline is. Miss Lindsey was trying to get Emmeline to look forward when swimming and not up at the ceiling. Emmeline was having a difficult time with this. After several attempts at getting Emmeline to look forward, Miss Lindsey finally told Emmeline to pretend that she was an alligator with her eyes forward just above the water. This did it. There wasn't any more trouble after that. After the lesson Emmeline excitedly told me about how she was an alligator looking for fish. I laughed. Mabel has progressed to swimming by herself--with a noodle. This is a big step and she is so proud of herself for swimming "all by myself." She had a couple hard lessons but is doing better in her brand new tinker bell swimming suit. I'll try and get some pics of their upcoming lessons and post some soon. :)