Spring 2016 Swim Lessons for Link and Meo

This spring we got the boys back into swim class. I wanted to make sure they had a little more water safety awareness before summer, and thought perhaps Meo might actually learn to swim now that he's four.

Well Meo did not learn how to swim, but he did become much more comfortable in the water! Plus he got to take the class with one of his friends.

Link was nervous about swim class at first, and especially did not like when they would sing the hokey pokey during class. But he overcame all his qualms and loved swim class by the end.

Link actually got really good at kicking and scooting himself across the water.

His favorite parts of class were swimming after the ball and splashing Daddy with water.

Meo, who we had to stop doing lessons for a while because he was so afraid of "the sinking part" actually began to look forward to his opportunities to swim without a barbell. It was really quite an amazing transformation. He still doesn't really have the coordination to swim without a float entirely, but he is much more confident and enjoys trying now.

Here are some videos from over the course of the session: