Isabella had her first swimming lessons in Oct. She went twice a week for 3 weeks. It is always hard to determine if she will enjoy doing something like that, but she ended up having an absolute blast. My biggest worry was that she wouldn't want to get into the water without Jeff or me. The first night, as they were walking into the water, she said "Mommy, mommy", but one of the lifeguards gave her a diving ring and asked her to take it into the water and from then on she was totally fine.
We began to realize how much she has changed recently. She was so talkative to her instructors, she was the first one to shout out answers to any questions. When they were making pretend soup she was always calling out ingredients to add. "Corn!" "Crackers!" "M&Ms". She also was looking for a lot of attention always telling the teachers to "Look at me!".
I could tell she didn't really understand the difference between blowing bubbles and putting your head under water. She was constantly dunking her head under water. When they'd get out the noodles to swim with she'd start swimming away and have to tell her to come back closer to the rest of the group. When they played with the diving rings and it was her turn, she always just stuck her foot out under water to catch the ring and get it that way - which wasn't the point, but it was so funny!
We are so happy she loved swimming lessons. The next level they said she was ready for was Level 1 which she has to be 5 years old to be in, so I don't know if we will enroll her in the same swim lessons until then, or maybe I'll just make more of an effort to take her swimming at the indoor pool every once in a while.
