Thursday, June 07, 2007

We have WATERBABIES

Carson and Wesley are following in the footsteps of family members--they LOVE swimming, and are SO good at it, too!

2 weeks ago, Wesley started floating on his back, unassisted. This is HUGE for a 21 month old!! He "qualifies" for semi-private lessons in the fall (once he is 2). Which RARELY happens, as these classes are usually available only for 3 and up. We have been enrolled in a weekly Parent and Me class since February. Not sure why I'm there any more, he's getting so good.

Carson, who has been taking semi-private classes since February, enrolled in an intense class at WCU that started on Monday. It meets every day for an hour for 2 weeks. Yesterday, only the 3rd day, Carson passed from beginner to advance beginner. To do so, he had to do the following:

-float on his back unassisted for the width of the competition pool
-roll from back to front and front to back, unassisted
-jump in on his own, come up and rotate to his back, all unassisted!

As a reward, Carson jumped off the diving board (not the high dive, but about 4 feet--a regular collegiate diving board) and came back up to the top, again, unassisted!

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