I mentioned a while back that on the very first day of summer vacation Jesse decided that he didn’t want to wear his swimmies (wings) to swim anymore. He could touch the bottom of the shallow end on tippy-toes and he was doing pretty good with jumping in and swimming to the steps, but he was making me a nervous wreck! I couldn’t relax at all when we were at the pool & you could forget about him going swimming without me there! Plus, he was terrified of the deep end. ABSOLUTELY. TERRIFIED. So we decided that it would give us all more peace of mind if he took swim lessons. He began swim lessons with Ms. Ellen on June 7th and for the next two weeks he went every afternoon and swam.
By that first Friday, Jesse and his classmates were ready to give us a sneak peek at what they had been learning. Jesse showed off how to make superman arms, put his face in the water, and kick, kick, kick to get to where he wanted to go. Finally Jesse’s final day of swim lessons arrived and it was time to show off everything he and his classmates had learned to all the parents.
Jesse was jumping into the deep end, swimming to the side, and then swimming all the way across the deep end to the ladder! He even went all the way to the bottom of the deep end with Ms. Ellen to get a ring off the bottom of the pool! Yea Jesse! We were so proud of him.
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