Swimming Lessons

This was our second year to do swim lessons at ORU and once again, it was a great success. The girls both jumped off of the low diving board and the high dive with no trouble. Last year, Brian had to go up on the high dive and practically throw them off...this year they both walked right out on it and jumped in. We were SO, SO proud of them!! I actually missed Madison's first jump off the high dive...I looked over and saw her standing against the wall, smiling and waving at me and I walked over and she said, "Did you see me?!" I almost cried...I don't know how, but I missed it! So I begged her to do it again and she did! What a brave little girl. I can say with 100% confidence that I would not have done that at 5 years old...I am 95% sure I wouldn't do it at 32 years old! Both of the girls are swimming very well on their own and are becoming very confident in the water. Even though it was hard rushing from VBS to swim lessons every day at 12:15 the first week, I'm so glad we did it. It was well worth it! Mackenzie wore ear plugs, but still got water in her ears and got an ear infection and wasn't able to swim the last few days of lessons. Next year Jonah will be old enough to take swim lessons and I can't wait. I have a feeling he may not like it too much at first. Maybe he'll prove me wrong! Here are pictures and videos from our 2 weeks of lessons.

This was day one, off the low diving board for the first time.

Mackenzie's class practiced diving a lot. She did so good!

I could not believe how she just walked right out onto the high dive and jumped off! She kind of bent her legs, so it hurt a little when she hit the water, but other than that she did great!

Yea, Mackenzie!!!

It's so much more fun when you get to do things like this with friends!

I just couldn't resist...

It was so humid in there and Jonah always got so hot and sweaty watching from his stroller. I can't wait to watch him take swim lessons next year!

Here goes Madi on the high dive...

As she was about to jump off the high dive, she took her goggles off. They ended up at the bottom of the deep end and that was the last we saw of them!

"This is boring...can't we leave yet?"

Mack's 1st jump off the high dive...she kind of panics a little when she gets close to the water. So proud of her!

Mack's 2nd jump off high dive...

This was Madison's 2nd jump off the high dive, but the first that I saw...I still can't believe I missed her jump the first time! I love how she looks over and waves a little to make sure I'm watching this time! I'm so proud of her!!!