Swim Lessons

Grace has been doing swim lessons for the last month and will next month as well. It's imperative that she learn to swim before she heads down to Grandma's house this summer. Grandma loves to spoil the kids by taking them swimming and to a water park. Mada, Reece, and Gracie all talk about this water park all year. It's the highlight of the summer for them.

So here are a few pictures of swim lesson.

A few weeks ago Grace was practicing her back float. She has a little backpack on her back that keeps her afloat. When she went to lay back the backpack didn't enjoy being put under the water and tried to come back up. Grace pushed her back back harder and in turn, really ticked the backpack off. It started to fight back and Grace got off balance and ended up rolling the backpack around to the front during the struggle. That pushed her under the water and she struggled to catch a breath. It really scared her and she has been very leery of back floats ever since.

Grace has never been afraid of a big jump into the pool. When we first brought her to the pool when she was 1 1/2, she did not hesitate to jump right in. She loved it! As you can see, it still proves good today. She is jumping in without her backpack, as you can see. A very big deal to her.