Papa wants Kylie and all his grands to be good swimmers. Kylie has really worked on it this summer, but just really needed someone to give her the right way to swim, I guess you could say! I talked with Casey and she agreed and we enrolled her in Tiny Bubbles Swim School.
They teach them how to survive until someone can get to them, and how to get to the edge of the pool, first! Then you can move on to stroke class. Now, I know she seems a little older, but really she has not been around that many pools, etc. We do go to the river and now her Nana Laura has a pool. So we just felt like it was the right time, and you can see that she is ready to learn to swim!
Her first class was Monday and she did great! I watched several other kids, younger and older, I was so amazed! I feel like this is one of the greatest gifts we can give to our grand children!
In the first class they counted to three and went under real quick, several times. Then they taught her to star fish…float on her back. Chin way high, toes on the blue line. (One of the first things her teacher asked? Does she have tubes in her ears? How long has she had them? She had her ear plugs in, but she really does not like her ears to be in the water…the tubes keep the ear open, so water can get into the ear drum!!! ) She also swam on her tummy, eyes open, feet are your motor, reach with your hands!
Thursday Lesson
Going under, star fish, flipping from back to stomach, kicking with feet, reaching for the side of the pool!
Day Five of swim lessons, repeat of every thing learned so far. Plus, she sat on a ledge down in the edge of the pool…they told her to sit on the ledge and then push off with her feet and find the instructors hands…under water. She did , several times!!! They have to remind her to look at the bottom of the pool, she wants to motor with her head looking forward in the water, which slows her down. Nice job Kylie!
