little fish

Little Lady started swim lessons this week. We figured that since she has absolutely no fear of water and now that she is walking and not yet listening we would need her to be as safe as possible this summer. Life here at the embassy is spent around the pool from May to September and I plan to be part of that life and live at the pool too. Until then we will continue our lessons with Ms Andrea in her heated pool at her house and hopefully Little Lady will learn something. Class one was spent working on kicking, paddling, blowing bubbles, and how to get to the side if it you fall in. There was lots of songs and the kids were supposed to practice holding their breath. If you have never taking baby swim classes you may be wondering how one teaches breath holding. Well Ms Andrea uses the lift them up in the air and slightly drop them so they catch their breath method. This seemed to work with all the other kids except little lady. We have been playing that game with her forever so she just laughs. Then the whole lets blow bubbles thing? Yeah she decided it was much more fun to drink the water or suck it in and spit it at mommy. Jumping in the pool then getting out at the side? Jumping in was great getting out resulted in screaming. Though she was very happy to kick and splash until a fellow class mate was given a toy to play with to calm her (apparently so she would leave the pool on a happy note). All that did was leave little lady determined to swim over to her and take the ball/turtle/boat whatever she had at the moment. The rest of the class was spent with LL trying to figure out a way to steal the toy. Go Figure. At least she had fun and it was a nice way to start our day. Can't wait for our next lesson!