Swimming Lessons

I've felt really bad about not starting the kids in swimming lessons earlier, so this year, before summer actually started the girls took their first lessons. Jena has always been a fish. We could put a floaty on her and she would spend every minute in the water. After two weeks of an hour lesson every day... she is great little swimmer without any assistance. She thinks it is great to swim down and touch the bottom of the pool (in the shallow end at least) and she loves to jump off the side and splash into the water. Taylor had a rough first day. She was crying and didn't want anything to do with having her face in the water. Luckily her teacher wasn't having any of that. She let her hang on her back when it wasn't her turn (mostly to keep her from trying to climb out of the pool) and when it was her turn, explained what they were going to do and then pushed her head under the water and got her to swim to the side. After the first day, Taylor realized she might as well like it, because swimming was what she was going to do. It was really amazing to watch her progress and now we just have to keep working on it.