First Swim Lessons

I've been wanting to see the children in swim lessons for years, but didn't dare take all of the kids to the pool by myself (read-before Cory graduated college), so this summer was the first time we were able to put them in lessons. We put Kaith and Trevor in the same class. Their teacher thought Trevor looked a little small, but let him stay anyway. He was a little piranha. At the last lesson, his teacher said he could progress to the next level. Miriam was sick the first week, and her teacher was a boy, so she didn't want to go to lessons. We figured it would be easier to put Sterling in a Mommy-and-Me class than to keep him out of the pool for half an hour, but he hated the first five or so lessons. Then I saw a ball. Once we let him stand on the side of the pool and throw the ball in, he loved the pool. He got very brave about jumping in (more like a big step into the water). With a couple days left, Cory got permission to take her into the Mommy-and-Me class. She loved those last two days.