Wow, what a busy week! The kids did Water Babies this week. It's a one-on-one 30 min class for a week that is sort of a swim survival class for little ones. Miss Glendy, our teacher, guaranteed that by the end of the week you can throw your child in the water and they will come up, turn on their back and swim to the side of the pool! It's pretty intense and just as I thought of backing out of doing it, a little girl, almost 3 drowned in our neighborhood pool. It broke my heart and I cried for days. So I decided what might be hard for the kids and for Doug and I would be worth knowing that our babies can survive if they fell into a pool.
After day 1 I thought there was no way my kids would make it. Matt was so scared that he did okay on the first day. Marlie cried the entire time and hardly kicked or moved her arms. Day 2 was worse for Matt. He cried the entire 30 minutes which seemed like an eternity. Marlie cried too but only half the time and made a great deal of progress. It was pretty stressful. Miss Glendy doesn't care if they are scared or don't want to do it. She MAKES them jump in and keep practicing until they get it.
Fast forward to day 4 and Matt is super excited..diving to the bottom of the pool to get rings and Marlie, although still crying, is swimming on her own! Dad got to get in with them on day 5 and learn the technique. Matt was jumping off the side of the pool and Marlie was thrown into the pool and sure enough she came up on her back and started swimming! It was truly amazing! A stressful week but we are so glad we did it.
After day 1 I thought there was no way my kids would make it. Matt was so scared that he did okay on the first day. Marlie cried the entire time and hardly kicked or moved her arms. Day 2 was worse for Matt. He cried the entire 30 minutes which seemed like an eternity. Marlie cried too but only half the time and made a great deal of progress. It was pretty stressful. Miss Glendy doesn't care if they are scared or don't want to do it. She MAKES them jump in and keep practicing until they get it.
Fast forward to day 4 and Matt is super excited..diving to the bottom of the pool to get rings and Marlie, although still crying, is swimming on her own! Dad got to get in with them on day 5 and learn the technique. Matt was jumping off the side of the pool and Marlie was thrown into the pool and sure enough she came up on her back and started swimming! It was truly amazing! A stressful week but we are so glad we did it.
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