Swimming Lessons

The last two weeks of July were set aside for swimming lessons at the YMCA. This year I had 5 boys signed up. I was hoping Micah would be able to be in the Polliwog class with Caleb and Samuel, but since he is only 5 he had to be in the Preschool class. This made 3 different classes I had to schedule; Troyer and Noah are in Minnow this year. For the first day, I had to go in for two classes, because Minnow was only offered in one time slot, but Preschool for that slot was already full. I had Levi and Jacob with me as well, and it was not fun trying to keep them occupied through 2 classes. After all the boys were done that first day, I went to the instructor and asked if there was any way we could move all the boys into the same time slot. She was super nice and made up a new class for Micah and another girl whose grandmother had the same problem as we did, she had two girls swimming in two different time slots. It worked out really well for Micah, too, because he got better instruction since there were just the two swimmers for one instructor.



It was still hard keeping Levi happy for the 45 minutes while we sat at pool-side. For preschool classes, the parents are expected to sit on benches right on the pool deck. Last year I sat up in the bleachers, so it was a bit easier to keep the little ones out of the way. Levi was not exhibiting quite enough fear of the water as I might have liked, lol



Jacob, on the other hand, was great. He sat in the stroller for half the class, then had a snack and fell asleep for the other half.

Samuel is the only one who passed up out of his class, he is now in Guppy all by himself. Caleb has another year of Polliwog to go. His review sheet says he needs more practice on his back.



This was the only picture I could get of Samuel, he's taken to not wanting pictures taken lately:


Noah and Troyer are at the point in their lessons where they are really just refining technique and learning new strokes. Noah tried hard to learn them well, but he still has some work to do on his sidestroke.