Swim Yessons

A while back we had FHE at a friend's house--swimming and BBQing to kick off the summer. My kind of FHE. Scarlett loves swimming. She wouldn't eat a bite and had to get in the pool. Well, she was in the hot tub (not heated and connected to the rest of the pool), didn't realized the middle was deeper, stepped off into water over her head, and couldn't get back out. Bethany and Michael came to her rescue. She was completely fine, but terrified of the water. All night and for the next week she kept retelling me the story of how she got stuck in the "big water". And how she had to eat lots of food so she could get "bigger and bigger and bigger" to go back in the pool.

We kept going back to pools to get her reacquainted. Each time she got better. Having floaties helped too. These ones they allow a public pools, since they are "coast guard approved".

Then we got the opportunity to do swim lessons!

Scarlett felt like a big girl going to "swim school" and LOVED it! "Dere-sa teacher dere!"

Deep Breath! Motor boat just ran out of gas!

"Not do dat again. Go back over dere."

Kick kick kick.

Learning how to float. Scarlett could not relax! I'm surprised Morgan still had both her eyeballs at the end of the week. Putting any part of her head in the water is a big deal...Scarlett always tried to pass when it was her turn.

Just keep swimmin'....what do you do we swiiiiiim....

Oh man, that face gets me every time! 

All I wanted out of the lessons is for Scarlett to not be scared of the pool. 

So, "swim yessons"=SUCCESS!!