Swimming Lessons

Easton and Blair were once again in the same class for swim lessons.  Neither one of them passed which I guess is not uncommon for this class.  I was told that most kids don't pass the first time around and a lot don't pass the second time either.  I thought Easton did really well.  He just needs to get over putting his head in the water when he is floating on his back.  I guess he doesn't like getting water in his ears when he does it. I knew by the second day that Blair wasn't going to pass the class because for some reason she was acting like she was terrified of swimming and didn't want to participate.  She was totally a different person three weeks earlier when she would jump right in and do everything her instructor asked her to do.  I'm not sure what happened!?!  I don't think it helped that the very first thing her teacher did when they got into the water on their first day was dunk them in the water.  Blair will put her face in the water but it has to be her idea and on her time.  I think it freaked her out that everyone was getting dunked so she opted to stay away from her teacher just in case her teacher had the crazy idea of dunking her.

Video of Easton getting dunked:

Easton volunteered to be the first one.  I was so proud of him!  Too bad Blair didn't go first because it all went down hill from here.  If you watch the movie again you should look at Blair (yellow swim suit).  You can kind of see that she is really not sure about this dunking thing.  I'm sure it also didn't help that it was freezing the first day.  The Saturday before swim lessons (2 days earlier) the temp was 109 degrees.  On Monday the temp dropped to 64 degrees and it was really windy.  

Video of Easton swimming with kick board:

Easton

Video of Blair swimming with kick board:

I was actually really surprised that she finally got in and swam because she was being as stubborn as ever.

Blair

Blair smiling!

I asked Blair to get dressed for swim one day and this is how she came down the stairs!

Video of Easton swimming:

WEEK TWO:

They actually moved the kids to the bigger pool because the heater went out where they normally do their swim lessons.

Video of Easton swimming with the kick board on his back:

Video of Blair swimming with the kick board on her back:

This is a video of what it generally looked like when Blair got into the water.  Usually it was her instructor grabbing Blair and bringing her into the water:

The only thing missing was Blair begging to go back the second her instructor grabbed her.

Video of Easton swimming underwater:

I was so proud of Easton.  He was so brave to do it!

Easton

Blair of course clenching onto her teacher for dear life.

Video of Dyer:

He was so proud of himself that he could get over that bar.  He now climbs in and out of the bathtub!

Even though Blair acted like she was afraid of the water I was proud of her that she got in the water by herself everyday.  On the last day she finally seemed back to her normal self.  She was blowing bubbles in the water and even putting her face in the water.  Her teacher was definitely shocked.