Alli had her very first swim lessons this past April. Her swimming skills were about in the middle of the pack. Not yet confident to swim without the floatie, but able to do most everything with it on. Alli was always excited to go to swimming lessons, and loved learning everything from her swim instructors. The lessons were 5 weeks long, once a week. At the beginning of the swim lessons she was ranked at about a 3 on a scale of 1-10 and by the end she was a 7. She learned to be more confident and how to use her arms and legs to keep herself afloat. Yeah!!
On the very first day before the lessons started I let her get in the water without a floatie because there was a bench that she could sit/stand on and I was right beside her. Little did I know, or her for that matter, that she would slip right off that bench and into the deeper section of the water, right off to the side of where she could reach, but too far for me. Scared me and her! Luckily there was an older gentlemen in the water very near her and he helped snatch her up and help her back on the bench, otherwise it would have been me getting in the pool fully dressed! :) Now that she has learned some skills, if that were to happen again today, she would have no problem swimming and getting to the side! She has grown a lot this summer!
More pictures of Alli's progress throughout the summer to come in future posts!
2 comments:
Good to hear from you guys! Love your cute family. Glad you didn't have to jump in in your clothes! And I'm sure it was fun watching her improve so much!
Good job, Alli! And thank goodness for nice old men in pools, lol. Glad you didn't have to jump in.
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