Swimming update

We've just completed our second month of swimming lessons. We have a week off before we start our daily and fun outdoor swimming lessons. Urgent - we need sun and warm weather soon!. The kids' swimming has improved a lot over the last couple of months.

Tyler is now swimming the length of the pool and back doing backstroke, crawlstroke, breaststroke, and a side stroke I don't know the name of. He's mastering the dolphin kick (which is quite fun to watch) and working on treading water as well. They've started working on dives.

Hailey loves bobs and has no fear of bobbing down and letting go with no teacher around. I stand at the ready to pull her back up out of the water when she doesn't come up. Near drowning experiences seem to have no impact on her. She wipes her eyes and goes on her merry way. In addition to bobbing she's getting pretty good and the front and back float. She's learning to kick and torpedo (arms in front) or torquido as she so cutely says. She pushes off the wall and kicks like mad (going farther and farther under) until her teachers hands find her. She's also working on pushing off to front and back floats. Today she was even able to try crawl stroke arms. Coordinating arms and legs is not easy when you first learning how to put all these steps together. Hailey loves her swimming.