Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Stress and swim lessons

Things have been pretty quiet around our house. The weekend rain, kept us indoors most of the weekend and prevented us from doing much. We did visit Lorraine, and bought some supplies for our upcoming trip. We got a new dive bag and some goggles for Nate. Maria is getting some new swimsuits and sandals for Hawaii. She's getting very excited about a change in scenery.
M also joined a gym, the same one our neighbor goes to, so Nate has friends at the gym and makes him much more excited to go. M really likes the gym classes, and the tanning salon, so she won't burn while we're in Hawaii.
Nate moved up a level in swim lessons, he's now an alligator. While the pictures are from Monday's class, the Tuesday lesson really made us stressed. Nate doesn't seem to be ready to use his arms to swim and likes to kick to splash, but isn't putting it together. The instructors have 3-4 kids and while the 2 teachers are working with the kids to have them swim across the pool, the remaining kids are supposed to hang onto the wall. Instead, Nate likes to let go of the wall and sink to the bottom. He keeps trying to put his head under water and doesn't always come back up on his own. He's not listening to the instructors and making Maria and I very stressed. He's not scared away from the water yet and needs to have a little fear to be safe.

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