Swimming Gone Swimmingly

TLK started swimming lessons again this morning after around a year hiatus.  She’s in level 4, where she has to swim required strokes the whole length of the pool.

I was worried at first.   I mean, she IS a fish, but all those summer days in the sparkling pools didn’t actually require too much work on her strokes… just a lot of  jumping in the pool and diving to the bottom of the pool for various things.

Some of her classmates struggled with the first stroke: the crawl stroke.   They stopped 1/4 of the way down the lane for help with the stroke, but they were doing what I would expect a person to do after being off lessons for 6 months.

TLK’s turn came up and she was down the lane in a matter of seconds.  We were so excited.  I was so pleased, I cried a bit.  I’m soppy that way.

She can’t wait to use the diving boards.   I have a suspicion she may actually have to dive off one instead of jumping off.   That will be exciting, too.  🙂