Swimming Lessons

Swimming lessons are a little stressful around our house.... First of all, I inadvertantly instilled an intense fear of drowning into my children (way to be too over-protective, Mom!) Second, the Wayne Pool is an outdoor pool which is only open in the summer and is only warm enough to be enjoyable maybe 5 days of the year. Swimming lessons are in the morning and it's FREEZING!! And, third, we have a hard time getting to the pool everyday for 2 weeks during the summer. We are just too busy with me working out-of-town and all of the farming Wes has to do. So swimming lessons aren't our favorite thing. But we are trying...

Kurtis really showed improvements this year--

Swimming underwater! (This is impressive considering he hates putting his face in the water.)

Backfloating...

Diving for rings!

It's funny... when we were on vacation in North Carolina, we had to literally drag Katie out of the ocean everyday! She loved it!

But at the swimming pool in Bicknell, forget it!! We have to practically push her in! Not sure what that's about, but we are hoping she gets over it.

She's all smiles as long as she's close to the edge

Look, her whole head is wet... Yay!!

Definately not comfortable, but not kicking and screaming either... so an improvement!

In the end, Kurtis passed off Level 2... Way to go, bud!

And Katie's passed off Level 1 and is happy to be finished with another year.