Swim Lessons

For the last 3 months Nico has been taking swim lessons at a nearby rec center.  He has made amazing progress since February!  He has gone from not wanting to move away from the step or the wall to jumping in the swimming three strokes to his teacher and floating on his back!  Nico has also mastered a front float, a jellyfish float, tuck float, front and back glide, changing directions of travel while swimming on front or back, and combined arm and leg action on front for 5 body lengths.  Even with all those, I think the most favorite thing Nico has learned is to be able to retrieving items from the pool floor!  He has one more month of swim lessons before a summer break, and I can imagine that by then he will be treading water as well.  I am very proud of him! 

I tried to take a few pictures during a lesson the other week.   Parents sit in the bleachers up high above the pool so we can not see the kids too well, so the pictures are not the best.