Swim Lessons

 We took swimming lessons last fall.  Leeza did great.  Sasha decided she would rather sit on Mommy's lap than go swim with the instructors.  We are signed up again and went to our first lesson today.  Leeza is in the Eels class which is the second level since she already had the Pike class.  Sasha and me are signed up for Tadpoles which means I get to swim with her, but it covers the stuff in the Pike class.  There are a total of 4 levels from Tadpole/Pike on up for the 3-5 group. 

 Sasha was a little afraid at first.  That is so surprising since she loves the water at the waterparks, but the last time we took the class, one of the instructors took Sasha and swam with her around the pool.  I think she drastically underestimated the stubbornness of Sasha. If she didn't want in the water, you amking her was only going to reenforce the idea that she was not going to go swimming there.  But by teh end of the lesson today, she was jumping off the side and going under the water.  She was also kicking up a storm when we were practicing floating on our stomachs.  We were in Arizona for the first lesson, the second was cnacelled due to lightening(yes even though the pool was indoors) so today was our first one.  there are 3 more lessons.

Leeza did great, but I didn't get to see what she was doing most of the time.  She was on the opposite side of the pool.  I did see her swimming with a floatie on and doing well.  She only tried to come over to our side of the pool once.  Her class only had 3 kids in it so I think she got a lot of attention.  We only have 3 more sessions to go this time.