Swimming Lessons

The boys have had swimming lessons for the past week and a half down at the local pool, and they have mostly been loving it!

I mean, they both love going, and they get super excited when we go there, and Kendrick only screams bloody murder for about 60% of the class, so progress?

The classes lasted about 25 minutes each day for 8 days. We always started by getting the kids in the water, then doing a song together (either "Motor Boat" or "Wheels on the Bus" usually), then we'd work on blowing bubbles, then our floats (which Cashel did great, but Kendrick HATED), both front and back. Then we'd have another song, then play with toys, work on our kicking, and then finish with another song. Sometimes we'd have a "car wash" at the end, where the boys would sit on the edge, and we'd rinse them off with a little toy watering can, and then pretend to wash them with imaginary bubbles, and then rinse them off again.

Cashel really took to it, did a fantastic job, and was actually bored about halfway through. He was all ready to jump off the diving board at the end (or rather be dropped in the water to the instructor by Mama or Daddy with a life jacket on).

Kendrick was a little less impressed. Part of it was that the water was pretty cold (even for me!), but he was NOT a fan at ALL of being on his back, especially. I actually felt bad that we kept on taking him, as it sounded like he was being tortured most of the time. But just a few weeks after lessons ended, we took him to the pool at our hotel in Omaha, and he was doing ALL of the stuff from the classes while laughing and giggling and not screaming at all. It was a warmer pool too, so maybe it was just the cold temps?