Swimming Lessons: Part II...

Today was Alexander's 2nd swimming class. We talked about it during the week and he seemed genuinely interested in going back into the water to kick & jump.


I'm happy to say that today went extremely well! He knew exactly where he was and what to do once we got to swim class. When Allison walked into the locker room, it was cute he waved to her and said "Hi A-son". Needless to say, Allison's mommy & daddy were very impressed that he was 1) not crying and 2) remembered who Allison was.

He wanted to put on his swim diaper, lock up our stuff in the locker & bring our towel. He was practically dragging me into the pool! We walked into the pool area and he was chomping at the bit to actually get into the water. There was no crying at all. We let a couple kids go in first but he couldn't wait. He walked down the stairs on his own and didn't seem to mind that the water was chillier than last week.

There was a different lifeguard there and he made me put a floaty around Alexander. I thought this was going to cause a meltdown but Alexander wore it with not one complaint the whole time. We spent the 30 minutes "swimming" and kicking around the shallow end. I was trying to show him to kick his feet while moving his arms. He hung onto the edge and kicked for a bit but he was more interested in either swimming over to the steps so he could walk up & go back into the water or jumping off the edge into Mommy's arms.

We did a bit of floating on our backs as I was trying to do the backstroke with him but we haven't gotten the concept yet of hands & feet can move at the same time. We'll get there...I'm just happy that Alexander had a great time and wasn't at all afraid of the water.

When it was time to go, we got out of the pool wrapped the towel around us and as we walked into the locker room, Alexander turns to the pool and says "bye pool see nex' week". Ahhh so smart! In the locker room, I turned on a shower just to rinse the chlorine off us and for a minute I thought Alexander was going to come in but he decided against it. We have six more weeks to see if he'll go in once...