Swim Lessons: Take Two

Having spent several years lifeguarding and teaching swim lessons, I always imagined that I'd be one of those moms who taught her kids how to swim like a fish by the time they were two years old. So, when Cameron was two, he took individual swim lessons. He did amazing and was swimming underwater in no time. Best of all, he loved the water and loved his lessons. Until the very end of the summer when suddenly he seemed to grasp that nothing was holding him up in that water. Suddenly, my little fish was clinging to me, crying, refusing to go in the pool. So traumatized was he that he, to this day, speaks of how much he did not like those swim lessons.

Finally, two summers later, he has risen to the challenge of swim lessons again, although this time in the less threatening environment of group lessons. He was enthusiastic and especially excited to be in level TWO! "Not level one, that's for little kids! I'm a big kid, right Mama? You have to be able to go underwater for level two, right? And I've been practicing!" Here's Cameron in his lessons. And here I am, relaxing with Matthew poolside.
Cameron emerged victorious but frozen. He enjoyed a post-swim banana, because everyone knows that swimmers need lots of potassium! Hopefully by the end of the session he'll be back to swimming like he could two years ago!