Swimming Lessons

February flew by for me because of the nice weather.  The boys took swimming lessons this month.  (It's a month earlier than our swim lessons last year, but we had to get them in before our membership to the gym expired.)  Lessons went well for both boys.  I was relieved that Caleb didn't lose any ground over the winter.  He can still swim (dog paddle) on his own.  The point of lessons this time was to encourage him to swim underwater.  He is still resistant to putting his face/head in, but he definitely made progress.  By the end of the month, he was swimming in short spurts under the water without freaking out about the water in his eyes/nose/ears.

Ethan's entry-level preschool class was more about getting comfortable in the water, which turned out to be kind of a waste of money, since he is already as comfortable as can be in the water.  He was the only one in his class who was perfectly happy to jump off the diving board, over and over again (Caleb still doesn't like the diving board).  Ethan has no problem putting his whole head under the water, floating on his back, blowing bubbles, kicking, or any of the other swim lesson activities.  The one thing I wanted Ethan to work on in swim lessons is keeping himself afloat independently, but they spent so much time playing games and "getting comfortable" in the water, that he had very few opportunities to work on that, and therefore made very little progress.  Regardless, it was good for him to be in the water twice a week all month.