Swimming in the Rain

Today the kids completed their week of swim lessons!    Of course, as luck would have it the rain was pouring down on the one day we get to come and watch them, but they swam anyway and loved it! Their swim teacher heated the pool this week since we have had so much rain and lower than average temps so they kids LOVED swimming in the warm water and jumped right in!

Clark did excellent in swim lessons and his teacher said she even had to push him further and challenge him more because he was doing so well...she also said that he was "very BRAVE!"  I know exactly what she meant by that...he is fearless and therefore dangerous!  He has no hesitation and while he mastered everything in his intro class like jumping off the edge, blowing bubbles and a few other basics, he is definitely not an independent swimmer after only 5 30-min classes!  

I will be keeping a very close eye on him at the pool again this year, but at least he has had some instruction of being safe and finding the edge if he does fall in!

He said that the "monkey crawl" was his favorite thing and he was really fast at it!

Still working on floating, but making good progress!  Overall I am just so proud of him for being such a great listener in class and doing so well in his first group lessons every of any sort!

Claire had a strong finish for her Level 1 (2nd year) class!  

She can now swim without a puddle jumper or floaties...which totally makes me nervous, but her swim coach says she can do it, so we will give it a try!  

While Claire was showing us everything she learned, Clark was supposed to be standing under the umbrella with me, but if there is rain falling from the sky and a puddle anywhere in sight, it is quite impossible to keep him away from it.  Between juggling my umbrella, massive camera, camera bag/purse, kids towels and cover ups all while being attentive and responsive to Claire I pretty much just had to give in after many verbal attempts to ask him to stay by me.  After her 15 min show, he was covered in water and mud up to his chin.  I had to choose to either chase after him and try to wrangle him while missing her moment, or just let him be him and deal with it later.

Oh man, what can I say.  This kid just loves life!  It's been a great lesson for me as a mom...I will never judge another mom again.  I've learned to just let go and roll with it.  It's just water, right?

He was so wet he had to ride in the car wearing only his diaper and wet shirt.  Wouldn't you know we had to stop at Costco on the way home, so there I was loading a toddler into a wet Costco cart and he was half naked with no shoes...remember what I said about not judging other moms, LOL!

We went right to the pajamas since he needs those anyway and I tore those darn tags off and dressed that kid right there on the display table.  One of my finest moments! LOL  We kept the tag and of course paid for them on our way out!  Thank you Costco for allowing me to bring in a half naked and wet toddler without asking any questions, dress him on your tables and leave with out any dirty looks!