Swimmy Swim

This summer we have been doing a lots of swimming. What we noticed about Caden is that he has no fear.  He's got even fewer skills!  So in mid-July we signed him up for swimming lessons at the Y.  We have taken Mommy and Me classes the last few summers, but this is the first year he got to be in the water without me. He went Mon-Thur for 2 weeks for about 40 min. a day with his teacher Ms. Theresa (or Ms. Theres-ta as Caden still calls her).  

Ms. Theres-ta worked with Caden on putting his face in the water, using his "scooping" arms, and blowing bubbles.  For the most part, Caden did great.  It probably would have been better if I hadn't been in there at all, but I didn't feel comfortable leaving him completely (remember the no skills part?).  

He was a little scared to put his face in the water and didn't like the feeling of the water around his ears, but he tried everything that Ms. Theres-ta asked him to do.  He didn't pass the class (not that I was expecting him to), but he had a good time, and he as a *few more* skills than he had going in.  

This is him practicing "chicken-airplane-solider"

Here are two videos of the little man in action:

While we were watching the Olympics, Caden saw the swimmers and said, "Look, they're using their scooping arms."  I guess Michael Phelps took lessons from Ms. Theres-ta too!