Swim Lessons

For the past 4 weeks, Isaac and I participated in a Parent/Child swim class on Mondays and Wednesdays at the University of MN-Duluth Sports and Health Center here in Duluth. The class is designed for children 2-3 years of age and is designed to get the children comfortable with being in the water and teaching skills such as entering and leaving the water at their own will, kicking front and back with support, and crawling along the edge of the pool on their own. Isaac was the youngest of 3 boys in the class, but he kept up with the others. I was pleasantly surprised at his enthusiasm for getting in the water and tried not to show my *gasps* when I jumped into the colder-than-I-would-like-water. We're finished with our lessons for the season but will attend another Parent/Child class in the spring before he graduates to the preschool class where he'll be ready to be in the pool on his own (with an instructor). Here's a few highlights of our pool time...