She Swims!

Peanut is getting close to mastering her swimming.  I have no doubt that by the end of the year, she will be swimming like a champ.  We put her in lessons again.  The lessons are pretty intense.  They are four days a week for 2 weeks.  By the end, everyone in the family is exhausted.  Peanut told me, "When my lessons are over, we will go to the gym to do what we want to do"  So true.

The logistics of the lessons was hard.  They started at 5:30.  That means we needed to leave the house at 5:20.  I ended up cooking dinner prior to the lesson but feeding everyone after.  It was really stressful.  I am not looking forward to lessons everyday for a sport.

That being said, this girl is a turbo.  She can jump into the pool and swim to the side by herself, which she did routinely during the lesson.  I feel pretty confident with her near the pool, but I am by no means ready to just kick back and read a book while she runs amuck, which is my ultimate goal.  (It sounds pretty bad to say that my ultimate goal is to be left alone by kids, but I guess that is the ultimate goal of any parent.)

I was really proud of not only her swimming, but her enthusiasm for the sport.  She gets the gold star for most enthusiastic.  She started to do the crawl and even was able to breath while swimming.  Something that shocked me was if the teacher moved back while Peanut was swimming toward her, Peanut would turn around and swim back to the wall.  I guess she didn't trust the teacher was going to catch her or maybe she was running short of breath.  Either way, she would make it back to the wall having swam longer than she would have if she had gone to the teacher.

and I thought she wasn't scared of anything.