Swim Lessons

Well we finally are getting on the ball with summer plans and the boys are doing swim lessons! I barely made it for the last session of the season. This summer has flown by with me stuck on the couch. Being pregnant really takes it out of you sometimes and sadly summer hasn't been I had hoped it would be :(.

We decided to enroll Cole in swimming lessons too. He's our water baby!! He loves the water and has no fear. He gulps water, coughs and chokes and does it again! He's getting more manageable in the pool and bath but still he's a handful. I thought some early swim lessons would do him some good. Of course the plan was for me to take the classes with him but with my recent ankle sprain I've been benched :(. Kind of sad to miss those fun times but I'll just watch and take pictures.


At first he was just wanting to snuggle and be near Grammy. Strange people, strange place but in typically Colie fashion that only lasted a short time before he was having fun.

Wesley, Wesley, Wesley... He is a handful in the water for other reasons. He wants to swim and have fun but he is fearful of getting his face wet. It ends up a battle every time. Recently Levi and I decided that WE might not be the best teachers for him... he might benefit from someone elses instruction (and patience). For other people he isn't as whinny and stubborn. First lesson- success!! The instructor got Wesley to hold his breath and go all the way under water by the end of the first session- something I had deemed IMPOSSIBLE!! He still had the same fear at first but at least he wasn't whining to the instructor. The funniest moment though was when they all held hands and did "Ring Around The Rosie" and then on the "... all fall down part" everyone was suppose to hold their breath and go under. Well everyone did- BUT Wesley. His head stayed high above the water and he swim over the top of another kid to get back to the side of the pool to hold on. My mom and I just cracked up. I wished I would have had that on tape- classic!