Swimming

Julia's last swimming class was on Saturday. She just LOVES swimming!! I think it is the highlight of her week! The instructor is just so impressed with her, she cannot believe just how confident Julia is in the water. While most of the other kids are latched on to their parents or at least want their parents right there next to them, Julia is just the opposite. She usually runs as far away from me as possible in the water, she REFUSES to have me hold her or touch her while she is in the water.

At the start of class, the instructor asked how old Julia was and when I told her she was 2 she wanted to know how soon she would be 3. Apparently, they just opened up a new preschool class and since Julia was one of the most advanced kids in this class, she wanted to recommend we join it. BUT once she found out Julia only recently turned two, she said that the kids really have to be pretty close to three before joining the class because parent's are no longer in the pool with the kid. Which is too bad, because Julia is really ready to move on to something more challenging, but it is her age, not ability, that is holding her back. THEN, by the end of the class the instructor came up again after watching Julia the entire class. She asked what I thought. I told her that I think she is ready to move on to the next class, but I understand the age requirement. She then said, you are right, she is more than ready to move on, just tell them I said it was okay to register her in the preschool class. So we are now registered for the preschool class that starts in 2 weeks. It is on Tuesday and Thursday evenings (5pm), but since I have no new job prospects, I don't think that the time will be an issue.

Now for some pictures of my little fish! (Ignore the pregnant mommy!)

Waiting for the class to start!


Getting her teapot. See how she has no fear about being in water up to her chin?!?


Practicing jumping in! (we were counting to three...)


JUMP!!! Since she has no issue going underwater, I a lot of times let her go all the way underwater when she jumps in. She LOVES this!!


Hi Mimi!! I love swimming! (I love this picture because you can see just how pretty blue her eyes are...)


Walking to the Froggy slide. (They end each class by going down the Froggy slide)


WHEEEEEEE! She loves the slide. She starts asking to go down it as soon as the class begins.