Last year, Ashlynn would not leave the platform and swim to water where she could not touch. This year she has mastered that skill and has finally graduated level 2 and she completed 1 session of level 3. She just needs to fine tune her swimming strokes and not be just a spaz in the water. The girls just makes me laugh! Everything is a game and fun to her as she is pretending to drown and drive her teacher crazy. I just love her fun attitude!
She loves sporting her new goggles.
Carter continues to impress me each time he steps into the water. It just amazes me that he struggles so much with other life worries, but when it comes to being in the water he is totally different boy. When I first saw that his class was being held in the 12 foot water, I wasn't sure if he could handle it because he has been able to touch the bottom of the pool in all of his previous lessons. Carter proved himself and did not struggle with it at all. He passed levels 3 & 4 for the summer lessons. He is now entering level 5 and this is last lesson before he can join the competition swim team. He is going to take the last level in November when we are off track from school and maybe see about getting him on the swim team this Spring. His swim teacher said that he maybe the youngest kid in the class, but he can definitely keep up and even out swim most of the kids in his class. He is slightly nervous to be swimming with the 10-12 year olds. He is excited to learn how to do the turns underwater with lap swimming and most of all he wants to learn more tricks jumping off the diving board. We are just ecstatic that swimming is something that makes him feel happy, relaxed and continue to build his confidence.
