Swimmer

Emily took 4 weeks of swimming lessons this summer from a neighbor up the street. It was SO nice to have it just a couple houses away and to be able to just walk over. Carter's have a beautiful yard and it was very enjoyable to sit on their patio every day for a month and just watch Emily learn. The first day of lessons Emily's goggle strap broke so that night we went and bought some new ones. But for the next week and a half she refused to wear them saying she didn't need them. I really feel like her swimming progress was impeded because she wouldn't put her face in the water. After spending a considerable amount of time trying to convince her to wear her new goggles, I learned that the reason she wouldn't wear them was because they weren't pink. So out came the old pink goggles now with the new blue/orange strap and she wore them just fine for the rest of her lessons... and started progressing rapidly. 

 By the end of her lessons she was swimming out to her teacher by herself, became pretty good at the breaststroke, and was quite a pro at going down the water slide. She is know begging to keep taking lessons during the fall and winter.