Swim lessons days 3 & 4.

Day 3

Steve & I both decided to get in the water with Peyton.  It started out rough and Steve looked at me and said, "He never acted this bad yesterday."  Yeahhhhh... I just wanted to climb out of the water and hide from him, because he's so much harder on me.  Probably because I'm home with him all day and probably because he knows I give in easier.  =)

I didn't get out of the water and within 5-10 min, he was great.  He blew more bubbles again and did a lot of swimming back and forth between us.  We dunked him about 5 times and he had a lot of fun.

Bonus:  After the lesson, Steve wanted to jump off the diving board.  Peyton thought this was the most hilarious thing he's ever seen!  The laugh that came out of him every single time he'd hit the water was the loudest, most hilarious laugh you've ever heard!  This 7 year old boy started showing off for Peyton, trying to get him to laugh at him too... which Peyton did.  But nothing was quite as funny as daddy diving off the diving board.

Day 4


Today we both got in the water again.  He did PERFECT today!  He didn't whine or complain once!  He's definitely happy in the water now, which is the main goal of the class.  He blows bubbles on command - it's super funny when he does it because he trys to make that "bbbbbbb" sound with his throat instead of his lips and so it's very aggressive bubble blowing!

He swims between us well.  His head goes below water and he does fine.  He's kicking and today he basically turned over because he wanted to float on his back!  He held onto the wall and got his own face wet when the coach told him to (like, "get your nose wet" then he'd dunk his face in to his nose, etc).  He doesn't have the strength to pull himself out yet, but he's learning.  He even jumped off the deck a few times (or really he just kinda fell into our arms).  He doesn't know how to slide across the wall, I'd really like him to learn that.

After class today we wanted to dive off the diving board again but they were doing lessons in the deep end.  :(  So we spent some time in the baby pool.  He loved walking around the sides of the wall.

Anyway, we're pretty impressed at how comfortable he's gotten in the water.  The lessons are very relaxed and not too instructed, if that makes sense.  But I guess he's learning a lot so we're happy with it.

We'll see what next week brings!