The past two weeks KK took a swim class at our pool each night. Last spring she refused to take classes without me or her dad in the pool with her. We thought, what if we try it now after swimming at this pool all summer. It worked - she loved it! She was the lifeguards favorite student - out of a class of five kids ages 3-5, she was almost the youngest (and the most fearless). She was also the only one who could swim a few feet on her own at the end of the session. We found out after our two weeks ended from another teacher how the whole time our teacher Mr. Chris was bragging about how you could ask Kaitlyn to try a dive or a move on her own and she would just go for it and try her hardest. My heart swells with pride and love!
And after two weeks of hard work (hard in waiting her turn to go), she did it! Kaitlyn can swim several feet all by herself. See our video of our last day of class.
So, today we started Aquakids swim class, as KK said she didn't want to stop swimming just yet. We signed up for the 3-1 class, as we thought yes she can swim a few feet, but really needs to keep working on the basics. After two minutes, the teacher looked at me and said "this girl can swim, she needs to be in the 3-2 class and maybe even the 3-3 class later on"... Wow!
I know I am biased, but I think she has a gift and a great love of the water. Her brother is right there with her. AJ starts Waterbabies 2 in October (yup, he is swimming so well and has no fear of going under or jumping into the water that he skipped Waterbabies 1). Looks like this runs in the family!
No comments:
Post a Comment