Aqua Tots

I grew up in Australia, where I spent a great deal of time (as most there do) in or around water. I LOVE to swim. Swimming lessons are important to me. I think it's just one of those things (like learning to read, or ride a bike) that all kids should know. Fortunately for me, our kids love it too.

In all the hamster excitement, I forgot to post that Jacob started back in swimming. I finally got brave enough to hand Jane over to a babysitter (I found a great one, and she came to the pool with us) and get back in the water with him.

I take my kids swimming at Aqua Tots, and they are amazing. It had been 8 months since his last lesson, and I wasn't sure how he'd do. He LOVED it. I don't know how much he remembered from last time, but he was right back at it, jumping in on "ready, go" and swimming back to the wall (underwater) for the count of 4. I was thrilled. I am nervous to have 2 mobile, non-swimmers this summer at the pool, so I am hoping he makes good progress. The first things they teach are safety related; to float on their back, and to jump in, swim back to the wall, and climb out by themselves (when kids fall in a pool, they fall in by the side, and many drownings can be prevented if they just know to get back to the wall, and climb out.) Of course, I'm not planning on him falling in or being unsupervised - I just want to be safe. I worked with enough near-drowning kids when I was at PCMC to make me extra cautious!

Here's my cute boy modelling his new wetsuit from warm belly (his last one was black - I guess Jane won't ever get a pink hand me down suit.) He wanted to wear it all day today!

I probably won't get any pictures of his lessons, since I'm in the water with him so here is a picture of him last summer playing with Rebekah.