swimming

So happy to be at swim lessons!

Cruz has continued his swimming lessons through the fall months. We moved to the indoor pool at the end of August but he has continued to go once a week. We are coming to the end of our lessons. We are going to take a break for a couple of months and then start back up in March, but I just have to tell everyone what a great swimmer Cruz is. The first month of lessons were traumatic, for both Cruz and me. He would cry and it was horrible to watch. The instructors have a "tough love" approach and it has paid off. After about the first month, Cruz began to listen, not cry, and actually start swimming. He wears goggles and flippers, can swim under water, turn to his back, turn from his back to his front and do the front crawl, get rings or rockets under the water....and the big accomplishment, he went off the diving board last week (all by himself). I thought he was going to do it again this week but the instructor had him working on his frog legs for the back stroke most of the time. It is really impressive how far this little guy has come and he LOVES it! We are so proud of you Cruz.