Swimming Classes

Lauren had her first swimming class today and she LOVED it. We take swimming lessons at the local YMCA and all of their kids swimming classes are in the therapy pool. This is only significant because the water is SO warm. It is just like going into a spa. Will's swimming lesson is at 10:30 and Lauren's is at 11:00. I think it works out great and it gives us something to do every Saturday.

Will did great in the Eel class today. He was working on swimming more with his arms and not just his legs. They tie these floats around their backs and then have them swim to the rope and back. Will does a great job and I'm so excited that he will be an independent swimmer soon. He continues to love going to swimming class - maybe he'll take after his Grandma and be a swimmer!Lauren seemed to know that it was her turn to swim when we got her in her suit. She sat in Joe's lap and waited her turn to swim. When it was time to get into the water she was so excited. She finally got to participate in something instead of just watching!! Lauren laughed most of the way through her class. It was mostly a "get your baby used to the water" class, which is different than the baby swim class that Will took (Lauren has a different teacher). Lauren loved to kick her legs and play with her little rubber duck. She was actually one of the oldest kids in the class (there was one boy that was 17 months), though you couldn't tell by her size. She really is a tiny little girl.

She loved floating on her back and in this picture she is trying to make her hand like mine.... we were singing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and making our hands "twinkle."Practicing jumping in from the side. She didn't like sitting out the first time we did it (maybe she thought it meant class was over), but she got the hang of it pretty quickly. Here's a short video of Lauren swimming. I never even thought of taking video of swimming class... I'll have to get some video of Will to post next week so everyone can see his excellent swimming skills.