Friday, August 1, 2008

Swim Lessons!

Bradley had swimming classes during the month of July. Connor was also in the same class so it was fun getting to spend more time with him. Before the classes Bradley had never been in a pool, so he was a little stiff at first :) but he got used to it. He has this thing he does with his legs - he does it all the time laying on the floor and he did it almost every time in the water when he was on his back - he'd stretch them out and cross them - he looked like he was just lounging, we kept trying to uncross them and get him to kick but he didn't want to do that while he was on his back :)
Somehow he always seemed to end up playing with the same boat, he was so good - he'd really kick his feet and try to move towards the boat.
Daddy was able to make it to every single class with us - we had so much fun. In the first class they had us dunk them - I chickened out! I just couldn't do it. Every class I would try get up the courage to do it and then I'd wuss out and get scared. I wanted to so badly because I think the earlier you do it the more used to it they'll be. I stated my concerns to the teacher and he reassured me that it was not required at this level - so luckily Bradley still passed :)
At one of the last classes though Kevin finally did it, he did a couple of practice - almost dunks - and I was so tense! I kept reaching out to grab him :) Afterwards he choked a little bit but was totally fine. Kevin tried to get me to do it on the last class but I didn't want to ruin his last class for him, he was having so much fun! His favorite part of all was splashing, he'd get his face soaked but somehow it was a surprise every time the water hit him in the face - it was so funny! :)

2 comments:

Erin said...

Cute Cute! Did you dunk him? I had a hard time with that when Sadie was in swim. She didn't close her mouth when I blew in her face, rather, she opened it and inhaled. Dunking was rough on all.

Connor looks so big too! How was your birthday? Did you get me lame late phone call?

Love you!
Erin

Erin said...

I see he was dunked, but did you mom ever dunk him?

Did I mention that we went to the pool with Sadie this summer, and she didn't want to use her floaties because no one else was. Every one else was older than 12. We took them off and she sunk. Lesson learned. Joe did try the blow in her face thing before he dunked her. Need I mention that is a REFLEX babies have? Since she never did it to begin with, I am not sure what he was thinking.