We have been investing in swim lessons for Izzy since the fall and it sure has paid off!!! Last fall she wouldn't even put her face in the water at her first lesson and she required a floaty for swimming. Fast forward to now and she can swim with no floaty, dive to the bottom of the shallow end to get a diving stick and jump off a diving board without being caught! (with a life jacket ) Her confidence in the water has gone up so much! She absolutely LOVES the water. She spend majority of the weekend swimming at a friends pool. She never got out of the water until she was given no choice. The beginning of last week she said she would NEVER go off the diving board...by the end of this weekend she was doing it all by herself while no one else was even in the pool!
She continues to work on learning the different strokes in swim lessons..she is learning freestyle, backstroke and breast stroke. She is in the last level of swim lessons before pre-team. I don't know if she will continue on to the swim team or not. She tends to fight organized activities...but we will see. She will be goign to camp at the Y for 5 weeks this summer and a swim lesson will be included in that as well.
It is so nice to be at a pool and watch her enjoy herself and not have to be in the water with her the whole time. It is going to be a GREAT summer!
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Way to go Izzy! T fights organized anything, and we sadly had to drop out if swimming lessons after a few weeks. She is stubborn!
She's gotten so big!
That is AWESOME, way to go Izzy!!!! I really really need to get my kiddos in swim lessons- my daughter HATES to get water in her face! Hope your summer is going well!
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