Swimming Lessons

I'm still playing catch-up with my posts - UGH.

Back in August, Jacob started swimming lessons! I hesitate to call them lessons because it was really just an exercise to get him used to the water. His first lesson did NOT go well. He was being a real mama's boy even before we left, so he wasn't having much fun with Jason in the pool. He just screamed & cried the whole time. He kept asking to get out of the pool, so finally after about 15 minutes, we relented. Once he got out of the pool and into my arms, he was ok. But he immediately went behind a tree & pooped (he likes his privacy!), so maybe part of the problem was that?

Anyway, the next week, even though I didn't want to (I'm not much of a swimmer/water person) I did the lesson with Jacob. He did much better, but fussed a little. He didn't like going under water, but liked the floating.


Here he is going down the water "slide".


This was an exercise to try to get him to stretch his body out and kick his legs behind him, but he really didn't want to.

Here we are trying to get him to hang on to the side of the pool to blow bubbles but that really didn't go over well either.

Throwing the ball at dad was the most fun!

So next summer hopefully we'll have better success with the swimming lessons! He is interested in the pool and likes the water, so that's promising.