Jumping in...

Zachary and Nicolas' swimming are coming to an end next week.  They have improved so much and are truly enjoying them.  They are always excited to go and are generally happy when they get home.

Zachary has been good with jumping (as long as someone was there to catch him) since this summer. Now, he is willing to jump in, without a bubble and without being caught!  Nicolas was barely able to get up the nerve to jump in with someone right there to catch him.  Now, he can jump in almost completely unassisted (still with his bubble on).  They have come a long way!

Zachary can swim the width of the pool unassisted without a bubble.  Nicolas can go 3/4 of the width without his bubble nd unassisted.  I am sure given a few more tries, Nicolas will also swim wall to wall.

I am so proud of them!  I cannot wait to see how much better they become after the next session in the winter.

I dare you not to laugh...

I apologize for the very long delay since my last post, but things have been very busy around here.  I thought I would start back with a hilarious video of Charlie's contagious laugh...  I think everyone could use with a good laugh from time to time...

Swimming Progress

Zachary and Nicolas started swimming lessons a few months ago at our local indoor pool.  They were lucky enough to have an amazing teacher Dan with whom thy hit it off right away.  I was so happy about that.  Throughout the last few weeks Zachary has been making amazing progress.  He is really getting the hang of swimming without his bubble and as even swam the width of the pool unassisted.  He is now jumping into the pool without any help (with his bubble on) and with minor help without the bubble.  I am so proud of his hard work.  It's really paying off....

(Zachary's video to come...)

Nicolas on the other hand had been regressing since his lessons this summer.  He was no longer willing to swim without his bubble.  It has been so frustrating!  I know he can do so much better than he has been but he was unwilling to even try.  I had a long chat with him on Monday after his lesson and I was hoping that things would improve.  I ended up taking only Nicolas to their lessons this morning since Zachary ran a fever yesterday and was throwing up.  (Zachary was much better this morning and has been back to himself today).  So, I left Zachary and Charlie with Mom-I and headed to the pool alone with Nicolas.  I don't know if being alone with him was a factor as to why things turned around today, but they did!  He managed to swim almost half way across the pool unassisted and without a bubble!  Here is part of his second swim...