Swim Lessons

The kids took swim lesson with Miss Amber the past 2 weeks. They were awesome!! Kaylin was a Seal. She learned how to freestyle and dive.

She did so well and loved Miss Amber.

Ethan's class was called Frogs. He was very scared at first. He didn't want to dunk his head or be with out some kind of floaty. He was sad the first 2 days but stuck it out anyway. He was a champ.
By the end of the classes, he knows knows how to swim on his back alone, go under water and swim with goggles, jump off the diving board with out floaties and swim to the side.

So proud of this little man and how far he's come.

Mika and Ethan playing a game on my phone while Kaylin's class was swimming. So cute. I love their blond little heads.
Mika's class was the Minnows. She literally screamed the first whole week. I felt bad for Miss Amber (she's even her teacher at church) as she wouldn't sit on the step and wait for her turn with out me there, and would immediately start crying once her turn came. But by the 2nd week her screaming stopped. It was wonderful.
But she still doesn't like the noodle. It would scare her because she decided twice she didn't need it and went under both times.
The first week all the spectators would laugh because when there was silence, we knew Mika was about to go under the water. She'd stop crying, shut her eyes tight and hold her breath.
Now when we swim as a family, she scares me half to death. She loves the water and tries to do the strokes and stunts like the older kids.

Thanks Miss Amber for the great swim lessons! We may put Kaylin in another round to learn breast and backstroke. What a great start to the summer!